Via the website a user can go to their history and manually delete a checkin. Is it possible to do this via the API as well?
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Via the website a user can go to their history and manually delete a checkin. Is it possible to do this via the API as well?
No, this is not possible via the API.
Since there’s no way to un-delete a check-in, we wanted to protect users from loosing all their foursquare history due to a bug in a 3rd-party app. Many delete actions are actually not exposed through the API for this reason.