Integrating Companies House API with Clay: Seeking Experiences

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Does anyone have any experience connecting companies house API into clay?

Muhammad S.
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Yes, I recently did, are you getting stuck somewhere?
Leo B.
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Yes, I am trying to get the PDF of the account filings but when I click the url link that gets given, the page is not avaliable
Leo B.
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did you have this issueC?
Leo B.
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https://document-api.company-information.service.gov.uk/document/a1aBqsXhUq0zOp_OPsfVo90_n5noPnz54RUWda4A-0g
Muhammad S.
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because pdf is a binary file
Muhammad S.
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Clay cant handle binary file
Muhammad S.
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You have to upload the file on aws and then get back the URL in clay
Muhammad S.
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The file returned by the API is a binary file
Leo B.
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ahhh
Leo B.
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makes sense
Leo B.
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Is there anyway I can do that?
Leo B.
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that part is new to me
Leo B.
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I need to scrape the data in there
Muhammad S.
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Yes Send a call to n8n, have n8n upload the file to aws and return the URL to caly.
Leo B.
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Thank you
Leo B.
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I will ping you if I am stuck
Muhammad S.
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sure!
Leo B.
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let me know if I can help with anythign
Muhammad S.
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No worries, just lmk if you get stuck
Leo B.
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Hey, had another question, did you have any trouble seeing which one of the directors were still active in the company
Leo B.
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Hey Muhammad A. do you have any experience with the HM land registry?