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Chris S. Hakim
Chris S. Hakim

Reputation: 1

Foursquare places

We would like to be able to pull out certain places from foursquare an categorize them on our website along with comments from foursquare users. I have the following questions:

1- Can we pull out places and categorize them the way we want on our website? e.g: restaurants/bar/lounge/club/landmarks/others.

2- can we pull out as well phone numbers (when available) and addresses (longitude-lattitude) of places ?

3- Does foursquare have any general descriptive summaries of each place?

Thanks for the help. Chris

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1317

Answers (2)

WDong
WDong

Reputation: 49

FourSquare has a great category tree that you can use for categorizing restaurants

http://aboutfoursquare.com/foursquare-categories/


Actually, I'm using this tree in my website: Dishes Map

Upvotes: 0

Jonathan Levison
Jonathan Levison

Reputation: 2617

Foursquare has an API, more information can be found at this link

To answer your questions:

  1. Yes, check out the Venues Platform in 4sq API, specifically, the search. When you query the API, as part of the result set for each venue, you get a category
  2. If available, you will get them back under the 'contact' field, check out the response venue object from the search function
  3. Yes, description field, you will need to make an API request to get the complete venue object.
  4. Edit: one last thing, attribute and play nice :)

From my experience, you do not get a lot of venues with 'contact' and 'description' information. But foursquare is not very popular where I test my application, so it might be bad experience - experiment with it yourself.

Upvotes: 2

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