Directorships
The directorships endpoint returns JSON objects for each directory involved and registered with the business.
Example URL:
JSON Structure:
Attributes
Field Key
Description
Notes
town
The town of residence of the director in question.
first_name
The directors first name.
surname
The directors surname.
suffix
Honorary titles, such as OBE, MBE, CBE etc.
title
The directors title.
date_resigned
Date the director resigned if applicable. Will return 'null' where the director is still active.
locality
The equivalent of the 2nd line of address of the director.
birthdate
The directors date of birth (month and year) if known.
county
The county of residence of the director.
appointment_type
The type of appointment of the director
date_appointed
The date the director was appointed.
postcode
The directors post code.
address
First line of address of the director.
nationality
The directors nationality.
other_appointments
Any other appointments held by the director
occupation
Listed occupation if known. Will return 'null' if none.
Search for a Directorship
Like '/companies/', a search can be performed on directorships by making a GET request to the '/directorships/' endpoint:
Returned resources will follow the JSON API format and will contain URLs in their 'links' section to the company they are linked to.
To filter directorship search results, append the criteria as request parameters in any order.
Search Parameters
The following fields can currently be searched on:
Field Name
Notes
title
The directors title
first_name
The directors first name
surname
The directors surname
name
The combination of first_name and surname, for example ‘Peter Smith’
town
The directors town of residence
county
The directors county of residence
nationality
The nationality of the director
postcode
The postcode of the directors residence
occupation
The occupation of the director
min_birthdate
max_birthdate
The maximum / minimum date of birth of the director
appointment_type
The type of the appointment
The searches can be combined. For example, to find directorships held by British nationals with the surname Morgan, the query would be:
When performing name searches, the 'name' field searches on full names. For example, the following query will only return directorships held by people called Peter Smith:
While the following search will return all directorships held by people whose name is either similar to 'Peter' or 'Smith', with the most relevant results returned first:
This means that 'Peter Smith' will rank highest, then 'Peter Smith Jones' then lastly, entries like 'James Smith’.
If an unrecognised field name is included in search parameters, it will be ignored.
To also receive the companies the directorships are linked to, append the 'company' string in the 'include=' GET parameter:
The response will be a compound document (see http://jsonapi.org/format/#document-compound- documents for format) containing the original search results along with the companies. All results are paginated.
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