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Asked: 2026-05-30T04:47:02+00:00

What are the informations from a user that are avaible, by default, for users

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What are the informations from a user that are avaible, by default, for users that are not his “friend”s ?

Can i have the list of “checkins” from any Foursquare user only by making API requests ?
What kind of information about a user i can fetch, without having him as my friend (friend of the account used to perform the API requests) on foursquare ?

On linkedin, for example, i could fetch his Company, but if the user used to perform the API requests had this user as a friend, i could fetch the whole “company history” . Is there any restriction like this one on foursquare ?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can try this out yourself at the API Explorer to see: https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/explore#req=users/1234

    As you can see, even if you’re not friends with this user, you can see their name, friends’ names, contact info (Twitter/Facebook), and checkin counts, but not the actual checkins themselves. You will need to be friends with this user to see their checkin history.

    Note that if you make this request without authentication (e.g., https://api.foursquare.com/v2/users/1234 with no oauth_token ) then you can’t see any information about them.

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