Foursquare
Foursquare is a location intelligence platform that maintains a global graph of more than 100 million points of interest (POI) and provides developer APIs and SDKs for place search, geotagging, autocomplete, audience measurement, and visit detection across web and mobile.
Foursquare publishes 8 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Ask API, Autocomplete API, Details API, and 5 more. Tagged areas include Restaurant, Locations, Places, Geocoding, and Recommendations.
The Foursquare catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.
Foursquare’s developer surface includes authentication, tooling, signup flow, documentation, engineering blog, and 13 more developer resources.
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APIs 12
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Foursquare Movement SDK
Mobile SDK for iOS, Android, and React Native that translates passive device location signals into visit events using the Foursquare POI graph.
Foursquare Movement Geofence API
Server-side API for managing geofences that trigger events when Movement SDK-equipped devices enter or exit defined places.
Foursquare Studio Data API
API for managing datasets, maps, and visualizations within Foursquare Studio for geospatial analytics.
Foursquare Measurement API (MAPI)
API for attribution and audience measurement using Foursquare visit panels.
Foursquare Ask API
Natural-language place search with justifications
Foursquare Autocomplete API
Type-ahead search for places, addresses, and geographies
Foursquare Details API
Retrieve attributes for a specific place
Foursquare Geotagging API
Resolve a coordinate to the most likely place (Place Snap)
Foursquare Match API
Match an external POI record to a Foursquare place
Foursquare Photos API
Photos associated with a place
Foursquare Search API
Find and explore places
Foursquare Tips API
User tips associated with a place
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Open Collections 1
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Foursquare Places API
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing Plans 1
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Foursquare Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Foursquare Finops
FINOPSSemantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Foursquare Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 2
Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.
Foursquare API Rules
SPECTRALFoursquare API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 10
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
AskResponse
JSON SCHEMAAutocompleteResponse
JSON SCHEMAGeotaggingResponse
JSON SCHEMAPhoto
JSON SCHEMAPlaceMatchResponse
JSON SCHEMAPlace
JSON SCHEMAPlaceSearchResponse
JSON SCHEMAFoursquarePlace
JSON SCHEMATip
JSON SCHEMAFoursquareTip
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JSON Structure 1
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Foursquare Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 5
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
Foursquare Ask Example
EXAMPLEFoursquare Match Example
EXAMPLEFoursquare Place Example
EXAMPLEFoursquare Search Example
EXAMPLESecurity Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Get Started 2
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 2
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 7
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
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Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Company 3
The organization behind the API