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Build better app experiences with industry leading geospatial APIs and SDKs
Built to meet your needs
Retail rewards apps

Guide active deal seekers that want to optimize their budget and discover new products.
The Movement SDK helps to deliver rewards at the right place and right time. Increase and audit data quality for your marketing and competitive analytics offerings too.
Take advantage of our Personalized Places API to help consumers discover new stores, venues and products based on their tastes and user generated content.
Travel tracking & recommendation apps

Help travelers who want guidance from local experts on places to stay and things to do on their vacation.
Create personalized travel recommendations with our User Generated Content (UGC) APIs to generate Lists to tag restaurants for future trips, Tastes to generate recommendations based on users’ interests.
Use our Movement SDK for snap-to-place place identification, integrations for taxi coordination, and more.
Restaurant recommendation apps

Enable people who are looking for a restaurant, whether they want takeout or a planned in-advance dinner.
Jump-start personalization during user app onboarding by integrating our Tastes API with your customer data platform to maintain a detailed user persona profile based on user interests.
Using our Check-ins API, enhance customer trust by verifying their arrival at the correct pickup spot, improving their mobile ordering experience.
Our suite of SDKs & APIs
SDKs
Leverage our SDKs to not only engage app users by delivering context-aware content in real-time, but also visualize and analyze geospatial data on a planetary scale.
Studio Data SDK
Allow your web applications to access geospatial assets, invoke analytics services and start pipeline tasks for bulk processing of geospatial data.
Studio Map SDK
Designed for building custom geospatial web applications. Control, embed and customize Studio maps on web pages or Jupyter notebooks.
APIs
Leverage our APIs to deliver millions of verified POIs within your app or website. Create engaging location and search experiences with access to the latest user-generated content.
Places APIs
Bring location context into your applications with the speed, reliability, and rich detail you need.
Places API
Access global POI data and rich content from 100K+ trusted sources via our API for real-time venue search, discovery, and ranking.
Personalized Places API
Leverage our global POI database alongside our personalization algorithms to provide a personalized search experience unique to a user’s specific tastes, visit history, review sentiment, and more.
Discovery APIs
Discover and explore new venues based on where you’ve been or what’s popular in your area.
User-Generated Content (UGC) APIs
Power rich location searches helping users find the best places through access to photos, reviews, tips, and more.
Check-ins API
Enable users to check in to record visit events, fueling our snap-to-place algorithm and enhancing personalization via the Personalized Places API.
Lists API
Curate collections of places for your user base or allow users to create their own place collections (i.e. wish lists, favorites).
Ratings API
Allow users to view venue ratings and give sentiment feedback on venues they have visited before.
Tastes API
Jump-start personalization with our unique tastes taxonomy to extract POI Tastes (based on user reviews and menus) and unique User Tastes.
Tips API
Leave tips and browse through the dataset to match a user’s taste preferences in order to surface personalized recommendations.
User APIs
Manage users and access their profile details, including all of the User Generated Content created via Foursquare.
User Management API
Service user deletion and access requests in order to comply with applicable privacy regulations.
Getting started guides
Set up your FSQ developer console
Put the most trusted, independent location data and technology platform to work for your business.
Get started with the Places API
New to the Foursquare Places API? Not to worry, we’ve got you covered. In just a few simple steps, you’ll be up and running with your first API call in no time!
Get started with Foursquare Studio
Using Foursquare Studio, you can create powerful geospatial visualizations that you can share with the world.
Developer tools
API demos
View working web experiences leveraging our most popular API endpoints, including code samples.
View demos
Geospatial data catalog
Explore a growing list of geospatial datasets provided by Foursquare Studio and our partners.
View catalog
API explorer
View working code examples and make authenticated API requests with full responses.
Explore API
Studio map community
Interact with a wide array of Studio Maps created by Studio engineers and other community members.
Explore maps
API status
Real-time info on the uptime and status of the Foursquare Developer Console and our API endpoints.
Check current API status
Studio map playground
Explore the Studio Map SDK in an interactive sandbox before implementing any code.
Learn more