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mannyvw
mannyvw

Reputation: 83

CategoryId in venues search not working correctly

In foursquare Api documentation for "Search venues" https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/venues/search it states 

"categoryId  - A comma separated list of categories to limit results to. This is an experimental feature and subject to change or may be unavailable. If you specify categoryId you may also specify a radius. If specifying a top-level category, all sub-categories will also match the query."

Realise its supposed to be experimental, but when I provide Food category i.e. 4d4b7105d754a06374d81259, it only returns a few local results, the rest are miles away.
However if I execute same search on website sing Food category, it returns correctly lots of results, assuming its the last bit "If specifying a top-level category, all sub-categories will also match the query" is not working , i.e. its not searching sub-categories ?

Any fix work around for this ?

Thanks,

Neil Pepper

Upvotes: 0

Views: 781

Answers (1)

akdotcom
akdotcom

Reputation: 4687

You're making a /venues/search request with its default intent of intent=checkin. This returns a filter on nearby results, heavily biased by distance since it's trying to guess where the user might be checking in.

Foursquare Explore uses the /venues/explore endpoint and attempts to return recommended results for a query. If you want to get the sorts of results you get in that tool, call /venues/explore?section=food

Upvotes: 1

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