What are the informations from a user that are avaible, by default, for users that are not his "friend"s ?
Can i have the list of "checkins" from any Foursquare user only by making API requests ?
What kind of information about a user i can fetch, without having him as my friend (friend of the account used to perform the API requests) on foursquare ?
On linkedin, for example, i could fetch his Company, but if the user used to perform the API requests had this user as a friend, i could fetch the whole "company history" . Is there any restriction like this one on foursquare ?
Thanks in advance
You can try this out yourself at the API Explorer to see: https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/explore#req=users/1234
As you can see, even if you're not friends with this user, you can see their name, friends' names, contact info (Twitter/Facebook), and checkin counts, but not the actual checkins themselves. You will need to be friends with this user to see their checkin history.
Note that if you make this request without authentication (e.g., https://api.foursquare.com/v2/users/1234 with no oauth_token ) then you can't see any information about them.
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Is there a way to get four square users twitter id using foursquare API
I have checked the gnip API, i have contacted them but the said it only supports enterprises
I need the users twitter id who checkin to specific locations using Foursquare so i can allow my users to communicate with them on my website
I need Anonymous users data and specifically not my friends data
Have a look at the Four Square API's documentation for a good place to start... It appears that this information is potentially available, however it might be dependent on you being "friends" with them or not:
If the user is a friend, contact information, Facebook ID, and Twitter handle and the user's last checkin may also be present.
The users endpoint will return a user object: This is available in their Compact and Complete objects, but not their "Mini" object.
contact: An object containing none, some, or all of twitter, facebook, email, and phone. Both are strings.
If users link their foursquare account to my site, via oauth2, when I pull a venue from the foursquare API would I be able to test if the current user is the same user who verified the venue (assuming the venue is verified)?
Or... is it possible to use the foursquare API to know who verified a venue?
I'm trying to build a service which venue owners/managers can use to help their business. However, I'll need a way to verify they are the owners/managers of the venue. I believe a very effective way to do this would be to force them to link their foursquare account, and then test if their account was the one that verified the venue.
If that's not possible, what's the standard way this is performed?
Instead of testing if a venue is managed by the current OAuth'd user, would it make more sense to get all of the venues that the current user manages? You can do that through our venues/managed endpoint.
Also in general, your approach of requiring the user to OAuth is correct and pretty standard for these style of apps. Our info on our merchant platform should be able to help you out.
https://dev.twitter.com/docs/faq#6718
If twitter doesn't provide any API, then how does foursquare retrieve them?
Foursquare has provision to list out the user's foursquare-friends who have registered with twitter.
It also provides API which shows friends of users who commonly appear in 'foursquare friend's list' as well as 'twitter followers list' of the user.
In both the above cases comparison can be made only through email.
Please help.
There's no way for you to get an e-mail from Twitter. Except, of course, by asking the person to give it.
What FourSquare does need no access to the e-mail. Matching is based on the Twitter name, not on the e-mail.
In the comments you say
My friend has registered in both Twitter and Foursquare. The only field common in her profile is the email id. No other fields match. She comes in the 2nd list which i have mentioned above.
but then you admit
After she has registered with FourSquare, went to her profile, clicked on friends -> Add Friends -> opted Twitter. She was asked to login to Twitter and thus she did it
This means that now FourSquare have access to her Twitter as well as your. Foursquare knows her Twitter id and your twitter id and can access Twitter (using Twitter API) to see who is following is following who. In other words when you say
The only field common in her profile is the email id. No other fields match.
You are wrong. Once she connected her FourSquare profile with her Twitter, all data that is accessible via Twitter API is in fact (at least potentially) part of her Foursquare profile.
But she needed to explicitly connect the two profiles (which she did when she opted to add friends to her Foursquare profile using Twitter).
The FourSquare API seems to be very user-centric: After logging in via OAuth I can see my friends check in, and which of my friends are currently checked into a given venue.
I'm looking for something more venue-centric, where I can get a list of everybody currently checked into a venue (friends and non-friends), or ideally receive a notification each time there is a new check-in at a specific venue. Is this possible with the existing V2 API?
I know you asked this 2 months ago and surely found an answer already but to answer your question directly.
where I can get a list of everybody currently checked into a venue
(friends and non-friends)
The FourSquare version 2 API has a venues endpoint
https://foursquare.com/dev/merchant/index_docs.html
A sample call will give you a stats field in the response
https://api.foursquare.com/v2/venues/5104
Stats:
Contains checkinsCount (total checkins ever here) and usersCount (total users who have ever checked in here).
for more venue information, FourSuare has a subset to the version 2 API called the venues project with more venue driven data you can update and mine through.
https://developer.foursquare.com/venues/index
You can check the venue checkins and mayors, comments, etc. Easily with the foursquare API, just check the API documentation for which calls can you make.
I wrote a handy article about how to connect to the foursquare api and make calls to it through PHP, you can find it here http://ryokuweil.wordpress.com/2011/08/29/how-to-use-the-foursquare-api-v2-with-oauth-and-php/
Authenticated calls /venues/herenow will return a list of people currently checked in. See https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/venues/herenow.html
To receive notifications when new users check-in to a venue, you need to have your application authorized by a manager of the foursquare venue, then enable your app (on foursquare.com/oauth) for the foursquare Venue Push API
I want to create a simple Twitter application, but I have a problem. I want to show the user information about his followers, but this requires one API request to get a list of all user IDs following him, and then many additional API requests to get the user information corresponding to the user IDs that were just fetched. Is it possible to get user info for many followers in one request?
Use the Followers method:
http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/followers.xml (Twitter API Documenation)
It returns detailed information about each follower.