Simple and fast tool to find companies (from their Company Number or Company Name).

I realized there was no such console tools for finding a company from Companies House database (similar to the Unix whois command for finding the domain names' details).

• Be sure PHP 7.0 or higher is installed

• Install Composer (https://getcomposer.org)

• Then run:

$ composer install

• Rename .env.example to .env

$ mv .env.example .env

• Request your Companies House API key => https://developer.companieshouse.gov.uk/developer/applications

• Open the file (with your favourite text editor)

$ nano .env

• Add the Companies House API Key between the double quote " "

• Change the permissions of the companies bash file (if you use the bash shortcut file)

$ chmod u+x ./companies

• Run the script:

$ ./companies <COMPANY_NAME / COMPANY_ID>

OR

php bin/companies companies:search <COMPANY_NAME / COMPANY_ID>

With the Company Name:

$ ./companies HSBC

Or with the Company ID:

$ ./companies 06388542

• Enjoy!

• PHP 7.0 or higher
• Composer
• Companies House API key

I'm Pierre-Henry Soria, Software Engineer (love that!) and also passionate about marketing and e-businesses.

You can by email at pierrehenrysoria+github [[AT]] gmail [[D0T]] com

Under General Public License 3 or later.