Polling for Updates
Problem
Section titled “Problem”Incorporations and other Companies House filings move through statuses asynchronously over seconds to hours. You need to detect status changes without hitting rate limits.
- [TBD] — which endpoint to poll.
- [TBD] — recommended polling cadence.
- [TBD] — how to narrow queries with
filter[...]and cursor pagination so a poll reads only what’s changed since the last poll.
Gotchas
Section titled “Gotchas”- Rate limits apply per brand. See Rate limiting for the numbers. Aggressive polling will hit 429 responses.
- [TBD] — further domain-specific pitfalls.