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Created August 14, 2012 15:19
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Simple Foursquare Checkins Archive of one User
import requests, os, glob, json, sys, webbrowser
you = 'self'
data = 'checkins'
try: os.mkdir(data)
except Exception: pass
cid = 'YOUR_CLIENT_ID'
if len(sys.argv) < 2:
webbrowser.open("""https://foursquare.com/oauth2/authenticate?client_id=%s&response_type=token&redirect_uri=%s""" % (cid, 'http://localhost:8000/'))
else:
token = sys.argv[1]
def run(offset = 0):
already = glob.glob("%s/*.json" % data)
start = 'https://api.foursquare.com/v2/users/%s/checkins?oauth_token=%s&limit=100&offset=%s' % (you, token, offset)
r = requests.get(start)
has_new = False
for t in r.json['response']['checkins']['items']:
if ("%s/%s.json" % (data, t['id'])) not in already:
json.dump(t, open('%s/%s.json' % (data, t['id']), 'w'))
has_new = True
if has_new:
run(offset + 100)
print 'starting 4sq archive of @%s' % you
run()
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Had to fork to add version parameter (now required) and a few safeguards like checking status code. Still works great though 💯

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