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Rob Porter
Rob Porter

Reputation: 811

How to get multiple sub-categories when using Foursquare Venue Search API?

I seem to be having trouble doing an API call for two separate sub-categories in a single API call via venues/search. The two sub-categories are Grocery and Health Food Stores.

https://api.foursquare.com/v2/venues/search?ll=43.250021,-79.866091&radius=25000&intent=browse&categoryId=4bf58dd8d48988d118951735,50aa9e744b90af0d42d5de0e

If I do this search, only Grocery will show up. Same if I try with Farmer's Markets or Gluten-Free restaurants. What am I doing wrong, or is there a glitch in the API?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1264

Answers (1)

pfhayes
pfhayes

Reputation: 3927

I just tested this and it appears to work with multiple categories. It's possible that this is because Health Food Stores, Farmer's Markets, and Gluten-Free restaurants are all uncommon categories, and grocery stores are very common, so they are crowding out the results because of your large search radius. You can try

  • decreasing the radius
  • making separate requests for each category

Upvotes: 2

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