Free guides to UK government data
Practical notes on UK government APIs and the engineering decisions behind GovBridge.
Food Hygiene Ratings Data: Building on the FSA API Without Misleading Your Users
How the FSA ratings API works, why Scotland uses a different scheme, what non-numeric statuses mean, and how to present ratings fairly.
Using HM Land Registry Price Paid Data: What the Figures Do and Don’t Include
How current Price Paid Data is, which sales it excludes, why categories A and B matter, and how monthly changes and the licence work.
Companies House Identity Verification: What Your Software Can and Can’t Tell From the API
Director and PSC identity verification rules, the new Companies House API fields and their gaps, and how to show status without legal judgements.
HMRC Fraud Prevention Headers in Practice: What We Learned Building a Web App
Why HMRC requires fraud prevention headers, choosing the connection method, and the traps around IP addresses, proxies, missing data and validation.
Companies House API Rate Limits: Working Within 600 Requests per Five Minutes
What the Companies House limit means in practice, how to read its rate-limit headers, and how pacing, caching and careful retries keep you inside it.
Before You Build: Five Questions for a Government API Integration
A practical starting point for defining access, data, failure handling and ownership before writing an integration.
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