how to get lat and lon of a checkin in Foursquare?

Question

There are many 4sq checkin tweets posted on Twitter. These tweets all contain a link to foursquare.com.

The question is how can I obtain the lat and lon of the checkin by using the checkin id and signature?

I use Java language.

Thanks.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 15 '12 at 13:41

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In the response is a "location" section that includes latitude/longitude.

answered Mar 15 '12 at 13:41

Jason Hall

Hi Hall, In the page you gave, it says that this API request requires Acting User. What does this mean? I want to know the id of the venue where user check in, as well as lat and lon of a checkin. Note that these checkins are made by other people, I only have client_id, client_secret, CHECKIN_ID, and signature. – Tranq Mar 20 '12 at 12:12
It seems like that I should have a user auth my app for access. Am I right? But there are thousands of checkin tweets I collected, I can never let these foursquare users auth my app so that I have access token for ever user. Any ideas? Thanks. – Tranq Mar 20 '12 at 12:22
If the docs say you need an acting user, it means you will need to get the auth credentials of a user before making the request. – Jason Hall Mar 20 '12 at 14:19

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