I'd like to query for my facebook friend's check-ins using Foursquare. Is this possible and how can I do this? thanks
You can't see check-ins of anybody unless you are friends with them on Foursquare first (regardless if you're friends with them on Facebook). But if they are your friends on Foursquare, you should be able to see users' check-ins via checkins/recent or users/checkins
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I am working on iOS / php / MySQL application, which uses Foursquare API, in order to post check-ins to Foursquare. I would also like to post these Foursquare check-ins to Facebook Timeline map. Basically, after clicking "Check-in" button, check-in should be posted to both Foursquare and Facebook. What is the best way to do it? Please provide quick example. Appreciate it.
Note: I don't have "Log in with Facebook" functionality in my application, only "Log in with Foursquare"
The checkins/add endpoint has a broadcast parameter, which accepts the value facebook. If that parameter is provided, the check-in will be shared to Facebook, if possible. The user will have needed to connect their Facebook account with their Foursquare account, and granted Foursquare permission to post to their wall for this to work.
Via the foursquare website and I'm assuming the foursquare iPhone app you can now mention friends in the checkin shout or comments of a checkin. The friend is then notified of the mention.
How do we markup the shout/comment for sending to the checkins/add or addcomment endpoints?
We've just made this functionality available to app developers. Visit https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/checkins/add for information on how to mark up your shouts with mentions.
I'm new to foursquare api development and was looking for high level
steps on how to get followers for a particular brand. I'm working for
a business that has its brand on Foursquare and would like to get
information about all the people that checkin to the brand or follow
them so they can send them thank you cards... etc... Is a brand a user infact and can I use the User endpoints to get the list of followers?
Any help would be appreciated...!
Brands have a userId just like normal users and you can access their friend/follower information the same way you'd access it for a regular user.
To encourage new followers, you should consider using a foursquare follow button on the brand's web pages: https://foursquare.com/business/brands/offerings/followbutton
While reviewing the foursquare API documentation, I noticed that we can get stats on the number of checkins that were shared on Twitter and Facebook during a certain time period, thanks to the Venue Stats for our venue.
We'd like to get that information for each checkin, however. Is this currently possible with the API? The checkin object doesn't seem to include that information, but I might be looking at the wrong place.
Thanks!
Foursquare doesn't support retrieving that information at the single check-in level (neither in the merchant console, nor the API).
Any idea what can I do to get only the checkins from a specific venue?
If i use it like:
https://api.foursquare.com/v2/venues/VENUE_ID?oauth_token=XXX
i get everything about the venue, and I only need the checkins.
Anyone has a solution? Thanks.
You can see who is currently checked in via the /venues/herenow endpoint. Historical check-in information for a venue is only available to the venue manager via the foursquare merchant platform