Dump foursquare categories to a file in JSON format

dump-foursquare-categories.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
#
# Notes:
#
# - python API home:
#   https://github.com/mLewisLogic/foursquare
#
# - foursquare API home:
#   https://developer.foursquare.com/
#

import foursquare

from django.utils import simplejson as json

# obtained from foursquare API home by registering a client
client_id = 'your_client_id'
client_secret = 'your_client_secret'

client = foursquare.Foursquare(client_id=client_id, client_secret=client_secret)

out = open('foursquare-categories.json', 'w')
out.write(json.dumps(client.venues.categories(), sort_keys=True, indent=4))
out.close()

Neat script!