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When making a Foursquare venue details API call, the specialsNearby field does not exist in the json response. I have tried hundreds of different venues, and none of them contain this field (they do contain the ‘specials’ field though).
I’m using v2 of the foursquare API, and giving it a version string of v=20120417.
Any assistance in obtaining the nearby specials would be much appreciated!
It does look like we’ve stopped sending down the specialsNearby field — once I can confirm with a few of the other dev’s, we’ll update the docs accordingly.
Edit: We have indeed deprecated this field in favor of the Explore endpoint below.
But, no need to worry — there’s an easy way to get the same info!
Check out our Explore endpoint — https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/venues/explore
Pass “intent=specials” to that endpoint, and you’ll get all the nearby specials.