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David Mulqueen
David Mulqueen

Reputation: 1

Foursquare - Venue Claim

We're working on uploading businesses to Foursquare via the API option. We ran a test and have a question but first, here's some background on our situation:

We managed to get venues/add working however, we had issues with venues/claim.

When we attempted to claim a clinic which already existed on Foursquare, we received the response code 403 and the following details:

{meta={code=403, errorType=not_authorized, requestId=59416bb6db04f547b5e4b8a5, errorDetail=not authorized to claim via api}, response={}, notifications=[{item={unreadCount=0}, type=notificationTray}]}

The API documentation indicates that the user performing this API call “Must be venue manager”. We don’t know whether our account is a venue manager and foursquare hasn't been too helpful in telling us if it is or isn't.

Can anyone please let us know how can we become a venue manager?

We are going to have approximately 2,000 locations uploaded via API and of that amount, we anticipate existing clinics to be a reoccurring theme so any insights in making this an efficient process would be greatly appreciated!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 192

Answers (1)

matthewhuie
matthewhuie

Reputation: 186

Venue claims are generally not available via API. Business owners will usually go through this page (https://foursquare.com/venue/claim) to claim their business.

If you're interested in claiming via API, please send us a note at [email protected]!

Upvotes: 1

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