Foursquare checking using API

Question

I am trying to checkin to Foursquare using the API, I have obtained the oauth_token and am doing a POST request with the oauth_token. According to the documentation the endpoint I'm hitting is https://api.foursquare.com/v2/checkins/add. This however returns a 400 Bad Request message. This is my code in C#

HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("https://api.foursquare.com/v2/checkins/add?oauth_token"+ oauth_token + "&venueId=" + venueId);

request.Method = "POST";

HttpWebResponse webResponse = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();

Stream responseStream = webResponse.GetResponseStream();

When I do the same in curl however, it posts a checkin and I get a json response back

curl --data "oauth_token=[oaut_token]&venueId=[venueId]" https://api.foursquare.com/v2/checkins/add

please obfuscate your oauth_token. even if such a token is time sensitive, it still is sensitive data which should not be made public. — Nzall, Oct 31 '13 at 09:18

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 31 '13 at 18:00

Ultimately what worked is the following:

        using (WebClient wc = new WebClient())
        {
            System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection reqparm = new System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection();
            reqparm.Add("oauth_token", oauth_token);
            reqparm.Add("venueId", venueId);

            byte[] responsebytes = wc.UploadValues(URI, "POST", reqparm);
            string responsebody = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(responsebytes);
        }

Thanks everyone for your help!

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 31 '13 at 16:55

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You should write your data to request input stream: HttpWebRequest.GetRequestStream()

answered Oct 31 '13 at 16:55

vchyzhevskyi

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I tried this method, doesnt work either. Check below for what ultimately worked – aballa Oct 31 '13 at 17:57

Foursquare checking using API

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