Foursquare API Getting friends checkin History

Question

So I've created an app on foursquare and used this tutorial to get the user to accept my application for their FourSquare account.

Now I was under the impression after I did this I would be able to access their checkin history. I've tried pulling their USER_ID and used this $friend = $fsObj->get('/users/USER_ID_HERE'); to get the users information. But when I access their checkins $friend->response->user->checkins I only see their latest and most recent checkin. Yet their count is greater then one.

I am assuming there is something messed up with them not being an authorized user of my app yet in their profile->settings it shows them that their account is attached to my app.

Any help would be greatly appreciated on how to access their checkin history! Thanks! :)

Answer 1

At the moment the API will only return venue history for the authenticated use (user logged in).

https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/users/venuehistory.html

I am also hoping to be able to see top visited venues by user at some point soon. Foursq folk, any eta on when we'd be able to get at least a top 10 from any friended user of the authenticated profile?

Answer 2

To access the authorized user's checkin history, you need the /users/USER_ID/checkins endpoint. The /users endpoint it appears you're using only shows one checkin that's used by the native apps to populate the "last seen at" information.

https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/users/checkins.html