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Pulls global venue data and geospatial insights into your workflows to automate site selection, enrich customer profiles with location context, and generate local discovery guides.

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Why use Ceven?

  1. AI native Foursquare integration

    • Describe the outcome and Ceven picks the right Foursquare calls, fills the parameters, and checks the result.
    • Structured, agent friendly tool schemas so each call runs reliably instead of by guesswork.
    • Rich coverage for reading, writing, and querying your Foursquare data, across all 5 of its actions.

  2. Managed auth

    • Built in OAuth with automatic token refresh and rotation.
    • One place to manage, scope, and revoke Foursquare access.
    • Per user and per environment credentials instead of shared keys.

  3. Agent optimized design

    • Actions are tuned from real success and error rates so reliability climbs over time.
    • Full execution logs so you always know what ran in Foursquare, when, and on whose behalf.
    • The agent pauses and asks when Foursquare is unclear instead of plowing ahead.

  4. Enterprise grade security

    • Fine grained access so you control which agents and people can reach Foursquare.
    • Least privilege by default, read scopes first and only the writes a workflow needs.
    • A full audit trail of every Foursquare action to support review and sign off.

Supported tools

Every action Ceven's agents can run on Foursquare, and when to use it.

Retrieve nearby places
Use this when you need to find points of interest near a specific latitude and longitude for local discovery or check in logic.
Retrieve place photos
Pull user generated images for a specific venue ID to visually verify a location or populate a gallery.
Retrieve place details
Get comprehensive data for a single venue including address, ratings, and categories using its unique ID.
Retrieve place tips
Pull user shared insights and experiences for a specific venue to analyze customer sentiment.
Search places
Query the database for venues based on keywords, categories, or location to find specific types of businesses.
Filter by category
Narrow down place searches to specific business types like restaurants or banks.
Get venue coordinates
Extract the exact latitude and longitude for a specific venue ID for mapping purposes.
List venue ratings
Pull the numerical rating for a place to compare it against local competitors.
Verify address
Check if a specific address matches a known venue in the Foursquare database.
Find top rated nearby
Search for the highest rated venues within a set radius of a point.
Fetch venue hours
Retrieve the operating hours for a specific venue to check availability.
Export venue list
Gather multiple venue records into a structured format for external reporting.
Retrieve nearby places v3
The getnearbyplaces endpoint retrieves a list of places near a specified location, primarily supporting check in use cases and local discovery. it returns points of interest (pois) including lower quality results not found in the standard p
Retrieve place photos by id
Retrieves photos associated with a specific place in foursquare's database. this endpoint allows you to access user generated images for a particular point of interest (poi) using its unique foursquare id (fsq id). it's useful for enhancing
Retrieve places by id
Retrieves detailed information about a specific place using its unique foursquare id (fsq id). this endpoint provides comprehensive data about a venue, including its name, address, category, ratings, tips, photos, and other relevant informa
Retrieve place tips using fsq id
Retrieves user generated tips for a specific place in the foursquare database. this endpoint allows you to fetch valuable insights and experiences shared by foursquare users about a particular venue. it's useful for enhancing location based
Search places api request
The getplacessearch endpoint allows you to search for places in the foursquare database based on various criteria such as location, keywords, and categories. this tool is ideal for discovering nearby points of interest or finding specific v

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Frequently asked questions

Ceven manages Foursquare rate limits through an internal queuing system that staggers requests based on your specific API tier. If a workflow triggers a massive search across hundreds of coordinates, the agent will automatically pause and resume calls to ensure you do not hit the 429 too many requests error. We monitor the headers returned by Foursquare in real time to adjust the speed of execution. For users on the free tier, the agent will notify you if a large request is likely to exhaust your monthly credit allotment before it starts the process, allowing you to refine the search radius or category filters to save credits.
No. Ceven can only access data that exists within the Foursquare database. If a venue is too new or is not indexed by Foursquare, the search will return no results. To mitigate this, we recommend using broad keyword searches rather than strict category filters when looking for niche businesses. If the agent cannot find a specific venue, it can be configured to search for similar venues in the same area to provide alternative options. The accuracy of the results depends entirely on the Foursquare geospatial index and the frequency of their data updates for that specific region.
Ceven uses the v3 API for all location and place requests. This version is designed for high performance and provides the most accurate venue data available. One specific quirk of the v3 API is that it handles place IDs differently than older versions, meaning if you are importing legacy IDs from a v2 system, they will not work. The agent automatically handles the conversion of coordinates and ensures that all requests follow the current v3 schema. This ensures you get the most detailed metadata, including the most recent user tips and high resolution photos.
Yes. You can set up a workflow where a Foursquare search triggers a downstream action. For example, if the agent finds a venue with a rating below three stars in your target area, it can automatically create a task in Jira for a local manager to investigate. Or, if a new high rated competitor appears in a specific zip code, Ceven can send a Slack alert to your marketing team. The output of any Foursquare action is passed as a structured object to the next step in your workflow, making it easy to filter by rating, distance, or category.
Ceven stores the data in a temporary cache to improve the speed of your current session and to reduce the number of API calls made to Foursquare. This prevents you from spending credits on the same request multiple times. However, we do not maintain a permanent mirror of the Foursquare database. If you need a permanent record of the venue data for a report, you should use a workflow that pushes the Foursquare results into your own CRM, database, or spreadsheet. Once the session context expires, the cached location data is purged.
When you ask the agent to find nearby places, it sends a request to Foursquare with a specified radius in meters. You can be as specific as ten meters or as broad as fifty thousand meters. The agent optimizes this based on your prompt. If you say nearby, it usually defaults to two thousand meters. You can override this by being explicit, such as asking for venues within five miles. The agent handles the conversion from miles to meters automatically before sending the request to the Foursquare API to ensure the results are precise.
Yes. The agent can filter search results based on the price level metadata provided by Foursquare. While the API returns a general price range, the agent can parse this to find only budget friendly or luxury options. You can use this in a workflow to create a tiered list of venues for a client. For example, you can ask the agent to find all Italian restaurants in London and then separate them into low, medium, and high price tiers based on the Foursquare data before exporting them to a Google Sheet.
If the agent attempts to pull details or photos for an invalid or deleted Foursquare ID, the API returns a 404 not found error. Ceven is programmed to handle this gracefully. Instead of the workflow crashing, the agent will log that the venue was not found and move to the next item in the list. If you are running a bulk update of venue data, the agent will provide a summary at the end listing which IDs were successfully updated and which ones were missing from the Foursquare database, allowing you to clean your data.

Alternatives to Foursquare

Other tools that solve a similar problem. Ceven supports these too, so you can switch or run more than one at once.

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