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ctide
ctide

Reputation: 5257

API returning crazy results for 2 word searches

Starting fairly recently, the API has started returning crazy results for 2 word searches. For example:

https://api.foursquare.com/v2/venues/search?oauth_token=XXX&query=local_edition&radius=35000&ll=37.8%2C-122.4&limit=20&intent=browse

Will only return things matching 'ion' it seems. If I search for either 'local' or 'edition', the intended location is one of the first few results.

Is it time to stop replacing spaces with underscores? For a while, that was the only way to get reasonable results when searching for multiple words. (see this thread for more information: What's the best way to tune my Foursquare API search queries?)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 559

Answers (1)

Jason Hall
Jason Hall

Reputation: 20920

I'm not sure why you're getting results for "ion", but if you replace the underscore with a plus sign or %20, it seems to work fine for me:

https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/explore#req=venues/search%3Fquery%3Dlocal+edition%26radius%3D35000%26ll%3D37.8%252C-122.4%26limit%3D20%26intent%3Dbrowse

https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/explore#req=venues/search%3Fquery%3Dlocal%2520edition%26radius%3D35000%26ll%3D37.8%252C-122.4%26limit%3D20%26intent%3Dbrowse

Upvotes: 2

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