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Venue Search seems to be ignoring CategoryId parameter

I'm trying to do some resolution between restaurants in my DB to their respective Foursquare id. For example, there's a Steakhouse (a subcategory of the Food category) in Penang, MY called 'Suffolk House', but when I specify the categoryId non-Food related venues still show up in the result group.

https://api.foursquare.com/v2/venues/search?categoryId=4d4b7105d754a06374d81259&intent=match&ll=5.4112879000000,100.305271200000&query=Suffolk&client_id=XXXXXXX&client_secret=XXXX

You'd expect only results belonging withing a category (or subcategory) would come back. What gives? Is categoryId really a no-op parameter?

Solution

  • The categoryId parameter is not currently supported for intent=match. You can either filter the results by category afterwards, or use a different intent if you need category matches.