# Factual

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/factual/  
**Website:** https://foursquare.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Factual Inc. was a Los Angeles-based location-data company (backed by a16z, DCVC and Index Ventures) that operated the Global Places database and Geopulse audience/location APIs, giving developers programmatic access to a worldwide catalog of business points of interest, categories, attributes and geotagged mobile audience data. Factual was acquired by and merged into Foursquare in 2020; factual.com now redirects to foursquare.com and the standalone Factual Places/Geopulse API has been discontinued. This profile preserves the historical first-party client drivers (Java, Python, Node.js, Clojure) still published in their package registries and captured as real artifacts in the API Evangelist network.

## Kin Score — 6.8 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 6.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 7.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Factual Domain Security** — DMARC

## Tags

Company, Location, Places, Geolocation, Points of Interest, Location Data, Geospatial, Acquired

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/factual/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.