Why use Foursquare Personalization API?
Out-of-the-box Personalization
Leave the effort to us — no need to stand up an engineering and data science team to deliver high-value, location-based, and regulatory-compliant features.
A toolkit to empower your end-users
All-in-one toolkit for all location-based personalization needs — we provide the APIs and SDK you need to build location-based, personalized features. Use one or use all.
Extensive data at your fingertips
Take advantage of Foursquare’s extensive and ready-to-use database of photos, tips, and more to quickly get started.
What can users do with your app?
Get personalized place search results
Leverage place search with personalized results that take into account a user’s Tastes, Visit history, Review sentiment, and more.
Share their experiences and what they like
Encourage multifaceted app engagement by enabling your users to check-in at places, leave reviews, rate their experience, curate lists or collections of venues, check in at places, and more.
Explore new places they’ll enjoy
Enable users to discover trending places near them or explore relevant venues similar to what they like.
Personalized Search
Returns Personalized Place search results based on user’s location and user-submitted keywords. Matches against names, categories, tips, and tastes.
Discovery
Discover and explore new venues based on where you’ve been or what’s popular in your area.
User-Generated Content
Power rich location searches helping end users find the best places through access to photos, reviews, tips, and more.
User Management & Privacy
Comply with global data and privacy regulations with simplified deletion and export options for end user data.
Features | Places API | Personalization API |
|---|---|---|
| Access to an expansive database of over 120M+ global POIs and residential addresses updated and verified daily |  Yes | Yes |
| Rich, real-world data with 1,200+ searchable categories and 60+ POI attributes including geocodes, photos, reviews, tags, and more | Yes | Yes |
| Personalized search results based on your user-generated content | N/A, search results are not tailored to the end user’s interests and historic activity. | Yes, results are personalized. Requires content to be created via UGC endpoints to generate signals for the personalization algorithm. |
| Provide users with the capability to share their sentiments using reviews, ratings, and tastes. | N/A, Places API allows users to provide POI information only. | Yes. Users can contribute content within your app using the UGC endpoints. |
| Recommend trending or similar places. | N/A | Yes. Your mobile app can recommend trending places nearby or places relevant to your user’s tastes. |