foursquare¶ ↑

A simple Ruby Gem wrapper for the v1 and v2 Foursquare API. With OAuth authentication.

install¶ ↑

This would be gem install foursquare but since this is a fork I don't know the most
appropriate way.

v2 example¶ ↑

require 'rubygems'
require 'foursquare2'

oauth_key = 'your_key'
oauth_secret = 'your_secret'
oauth_redirect_url = 'http://testing.yoursite.com/'

oauth = Foursquare2::OAuth2.new(oauth_key, oauth_secret, oauth_redirect_url)

# Get the URL to redirect clients to to authorize your application.
authorize_url = oauth.authorize_url

# Get the access token object from OAuth2 for the code returned to your app.
# The actual token string is accessible by using something like access_token.token
# or oauth.access_token(params[:code]).token.
access_token = oauth.access_token(params[:code])

# Use a stored access token
oauth.access_token = 'stored_access_token_string'

# Actually do API calls.
foursquare = Foursquare2::Base.new(oauth)
foursquare.venues_search(:ll => "30.218978,-97.75523", :query => "McDonald's", :limit => 10)
foursquare.venues_categories

v1 example¶ ↑

require 'rubygems'
require 'foursquare'

oauth_key = 'your_key'
oauth_secret = 'your_secret'

oauth = Foursquare::OAuth.new(oauth_key, oauth_secret)

request_token = oauth.request_token.token
request_secret = oauth.request_token.secret

# redirecting user to foursquare to authorize
oauth.request_token.authorize_url

# foursquare redirects back to your callback url, passing the verifier in the url params

access_token, access_secret = oauth.authorize_from_request(request_token, request_secret, verifier)

# save the user's access token and secret

oauth = Foursquare::OAuth.new(oauth_key, oauth_secret)
oauth.authorize_from_access(access_token, access_secret)
foursquare = Foursquare::Base.new(oauth)

foursquare.test

foursquare.venues :geolat => geolat, :geolong => geolong, :l => 10, :q => 'pizza'
foursquare.tips :geolat => geolat, :geolong => geolong, :l => 10
foursquare.checkins :geolat => geolat, :geolong => geolong

checkin = {
  :vid => vid,
  :shout => "this is what i'm up to",
  :venue => "Cohabitat",
  :private => 0,
  :twitter => 0,
  :geolat => geolat,
  :geolong => geolong
}

# these all do the same thing
# the response is a hashie object built from the checkin json.  so you can do new_checkin.shout
new_checkin = foursquare.checkin(checkin)
new_checkin.class
=> Hashie::Mash
new_checkin
=> {...checkin hashie...}
new_checkin = foursquare.send('checkin=', checkin)
new_checkin.class
=> Hash
new_checkin
=> {'checkin' => {...}}
new_checkin = foursquare.api(:checkin=, checkin)
new_checkin.class
=> Hashie::Mash
new_checkin
=> {:checkin => {...}}

foursquare.history :l => 10
foursquare.api(:history, :l => 10).checkins
foursquare.user :uid => user_id :badges => 0
foursquare.user # currently authenticated user
foursquare.friends :uid => 99999
foursquare.venue :vid => venue_id
foursquare.addvenue :name => name, :address => address, :city => city, ...
foursquare.venue_proposeedit :venue_id => venue_id, :name => name, :address => address, :city => ...
foursquare.venue_flagclosed :vid => venue_id
foursquare.addtip :vid => 12345, :tip => 'here is a tip'
foursquare.tip_marktodo :tid => tip_id
foursquare.tip_markdone :tid => tip_id
foursquare.friend_requests
foursquare.friend_approve :uid => friend_id
foursquare.friend_deny :uid => friend_id
foursquare.friend_sendrequest :uid => friend_id
foursquare.findfriends_byname :q => search_string
foursquare.findfriends_byphone :q => '555 123'
foursquare.findfriends_bytwitter :q => twitter_name
foursquare.settings_setping :uid => user_id, :self => global_ping_status

license ¶ ↑

(the MIT license)

Copyright © 2009 Workperch Inc

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.