Private Beta Feature
This documentation covers a feature currently in Private Beta. Access is exclusive to approved participants. If you're interested in joining the Private Beta program, apply here.
Please note that while the docs are publicly viewable, functionality is limited to Private Beta participants until public launch.
Description
Returns profile information for a given user, including selected mayorships. The web profile for a user is visible at <https://foursquare.com/user/USER_ID>.
If the user is a friend, contact information, Facebook ID, and Twitter handle and the user's last checkin may also be present.
In addition, the pings field will indicate whether check-ins from this user will trigger a ping (notifications to mobile devices). This setting can be changed via setpings.
Note: This setting is overriden if pings is false in settings (no pings will be sent, even if this user is set to true).