Places API

Better POI data, better app experiences

Join thousands of developers building incredible location features with Foursquare Places API points of interest (POI) data.

What makes Foursquare Places APIs unique?

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    Extensive POI coverage

    All Foursquare APIs are built on our robust geospatial database of 100M+ POI across 200+ countries, 15B+ human verified check-ins, and 1B+ photos, tips, and reviews.

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    Flexible licensing, scalable pricing

    With pay-as-you-go pricing, you only pay for what you need. Test select Pro API endpoints at no charge for up to 10,000 calls. Enterprise accounts receive additional discount benefits.

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    More control over your POI data

    Directly contribute to and enhance the POI data you and your users care about most through our Placemaker API. 

Places API in action

  • Find places near you

    Enhance your users’ experience with location-aware search, returning relevant and proximal POIs

  • Add context with tips & photos

    Build functionality that leverages the wisdom of the crowds by returning photos and tips about a place.

  • Content geotagging & sharing

    Help users tell their stories by providing an app experience that allows for geotagging their posts, photos, and other content.

What does the Places API consist of?

Search & Data

Returns places, place IDs, tips, and photos based on user-submitted keywords.

Geotagging & Check-in 

Returns candidates and POIs to help users geotag their posts, photos, and other content.

Placemaker Tools

Directly improve the data you use most. Allow your users to contribute suggested edits, removals, merges, flags, and statuses.

Managed Users

Enables user creation, refresh, and deletion to support users in contributing edits to FSQ OS Places.  

Real-world applications

Atmosfy
Beat
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Place discovery through authentic video content

Retail and restaurant exploration app Atmosfy uses Places API to show users POI-specific video content, helping them explore new venues.

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Powering POI search for Beat

Beat is the fastest-growing ride-hailing app in Latin America and it’s point of interest results are powered by Places API. As riders type pickup and dropoff locations into the app, Places API provides real-time responses to identify the right destination and connect with drivers faster.

Test out Places API to drive better app experiences

Try Places API, enhanced with new explorer tool that makes it easy to experiment with code snippets in the browser before committing changes to your code.