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Foursquare venue score/rating

Does anyone know how I can get a venue's score/rating (e.g. 9.0/10) using the Foursquare API?

I am connecting via Userless Access. https://developer.foursquare.com/overview/auth#userless

The JSON blob that I get when I request venue details does not seem to include the score/rating. https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/venues/venues

Solution

  • It is worth noting, first of all, that not all venues have ratings. A rating is only calculated in certain situations, like if there is enough sentiment data about a venue to start calculating a rating and if the venue is not a user's home.

    However, if a venue does have a rating calculated and you're making a request with a recent version of the API (make sure you have a v param set from within the last few months), it will be returned in the JSON from the API as follows, when you make a call to /venues/<ID>:

    {
  response: {
    venue: {
      ... // Other data about the venue will surround this, of course
      rating: 7.18
    }
  }
  ... // The response's metadata will also be here
}

    So, basically you want to check response.venue.rating.