With the merchant api, can I create specials, campaigns, tips, venue information or only is for get information? I only view the get functions...
You can see the list of endpoints # https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/index, which includes endpoints like /specials/add for creating new specials.
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Does the Foursquare API allow us to pull reviews and then allowing the verified location to respond to it?
I am just wondering if the API allows access to reviews and pulling those sets of data.
Thanks
Foursquare doesn't have reviews per se. They call them tips, and you can get them via the API for a specific venue or user -> https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/venues/tips
Is there a way to use FourSquare in a conference scenario without being the owner of the venue?
I'm looking for a way to create for multiple conferences in multiple geographic locations various checkins based on our conference schedule with custom badges, rewards and specials.
Is this possible via the API?
Unfortunately not, for a few reasons:
An event is an aspect of a venue in Foursquare, so under that model only the venue owner has control over the events at the venue.
In addition, Foursquare currently supports music and movie events only, and doesn't actually let venue owners create events at venues via the API. See here for more details: https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/venues/events
Only the owner of a venue can add rewards and specials. These benefits are associated with venues as opposed to events.
Only brands can create custom badges, and this cannot be done via the API (there's a manual approval process involved): http://business.foursquare.com/brands/
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
Is it possible to create and claim test venues to use with the API? I've created two venues (which are not real businesses), and I'd like to claim them as the venue manager so I can test as I build with the API.
There's no way to claim a venue via the API. You can e-mail api#foursquare.com with the fake venue ID & requested manager ID and we can set it up for you.
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).