Right now, when you check into a movie theater, you have the ability to check into a specific movie showing.
If you're a venue owner that has a schedule that people can check into, is there a foursquare api method that lets you upload your schedule? What do the movie theaters use?
This schedule you're referring too is called "events" on Foursquare. Foursquare is currently partnered with ESPN (sporting events), MovieTickets.com (Movie Times) & SongKick (concerts) for the data you're seeing. There is no way (currently) for you to create an event at a venue using the Foursquare api. However, it looks like this feature may be on its way based on the update at the end of this blog post.
http://blog.foursquare.com/2011/08/18/foursquare_events/
Not through the API, the current ability to edit a venue in FourSquare can be found at: https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/venues/edit
Events can be viewed through a venue using the API here: https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/venues/events
Once you manage a venue on FourSquare, you can maintain it through the Dashboard - found here:
https://foursquare.com/business/merchants/dashboard
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A client is proposing an app that would display checkins from users who have agreed to share their foursquare info with us; the catch is that they would want to distinguish between checkins that are and aren't relevant to this app. Is there a way to handle that, for instance with user comments at the time of checkin?
You can always look at the category of the venue the user has checked into, which should be available from the check-in response, or filter by specific venues directly. You can also filtering by content in a check-in shout is also a viable idea; the #mom app does this.
We integrate our service to 4sqr, this is done by our customer informing us of their venue-id from the 4sqr URL. However, if a venue is claimed and a twitter associated with the venue the url is switched to one with the twitter id.
so, one of two things after this twitter acct is in place for a venue:
1. how does one find the venue-id in your UI?
or
2. how does one query the venue details using the twitter handle?
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Foursquare's /users/search should work (you're basically searching for a "venue user"). https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/explore#req=users/search%3Ftwitter%3Dwinkellyauto
I'm using another venues provider, but would like to search Foursquare from the venue results of that provider for Foursquare checkins. Is this possible or would that be considered violating the TOS?
Why not read the Policy at https://developer.foursquare.com/overview/community ?
Whats written there as of writing this answer is that it is okay to extend their results with other data sources.
It is not okay to search across both foursquare and Google Places, then return a combination of their results/data.
What I would do if I am doing something I am not sure of is just ask them directly at https://developer.foursquare.com/overview/support
At the last paragraph they talk about policy (at the support page), says you can email them directly.
I have an app where you can buy food on delivery restaurants.
Can I use the Foursquare API so the user can check-in on the restaurant that he order from?
Probably the user will not be in the resutaurant it self when he checkin.
There is an special way to do this on the foursquare api?
thanks
You can check-in any user that has authorized your application at a venue using the /checkins/add endpoint in the API. If you don't know the user's actual location (or fully expect them not to actually be there, but have a legitimate reason to be checking in, e.g. for delivery) be sure to leave the lat/lng parameter blank. The check-in will go through and be in the user's history, but won't count for badges/mayorships, etc.
I'm not too sure what you're asking. I don't think you can check in to places if you're not even near them (or at least I wasn't able to when I last used the 4sq API).
Check this tutorial out if you need help getting started with the API, or read the 4sq api documentation.
using the Foursquare API I am currently able to get a venue Mayor but can I got the Top5 user?
Thanks
To get the top 5 (or 10) users for a venue, you'll need to use foursquare's Merchant API and act on the behalf of the venue's manager.
In particular, you'd use the /venues/stats endpoint (https://developer.foursquare.com/merchant/venues/stats.html). For more information about the Merchant API and venue managers, see: https://developer.foursquare.com/merchant/
In short no. The best you can get is the stats from a venue: Foursquare API Venue those contain: "Contains checkinsCount (total checkins ever here), usersCount (total users who have ever checked in here), and tipCount (number of tips here)."
From my experience the API is almost designed to avoid this sort of info gathering. Best way would be watch as people check in to the venue and create your own stats from that information.