Foursquare Cartridge - Configuration Guidelines and Implementation Notes

The Sponger cartridge for Foursquare is written to the Foursquare REST API. In order to use this API, the cartridge must be configured with a Foursquare OAuth token. To obtain an OAuth token, register the Sponger as a Foursquare application. Any application name can be used, for example 'Sponger_{your-virtuoso-host}'. However the OAuth redirect URL must point to the /foursquare_oauth virtual path defined when the Cartridges VAD is installed, e.g. http://{your-virtuoso-host:port}/foursqaure_oauth/foursqaure_access_token.vsp.

Registering the Sponger as a Foursquare Application

Before you can obtain access tokens for the cartridge, you first need to register the Sponger as a Foursquare application.

  1. Register the Sponger using the Foursquare My OAuth Consumers.



  2. Click "Register a New Consumer".
  3. Specify application name, application website, callback url:



  4. You have successfully registered your Sponger instance as a Foursquare application and you have a Client ID and a Client Secret on the Foursquare My OAuth Consumers:



  5. Using the instruction from Foursquare API get the Oath token for your application:



  6. Now go to your local Conductor at http://your-virtuoso-host:port/conductor
  7. Go to Linked Data -> Sponger -> Extractor Cartridges:



  8. Find "Foursquare" and click on its link in order to edit its properties. Enter the OAuth token noted in the cartridge's "Options" field as values for options oauth_token:



  9. Click 'Update" to save the "Options" settings.

View the Retrieved Data

The cartridge is configured to trigger on URI pattern http*://.*.foursquare.com/.*. It is assumed that a Foursquare venue URL will be used as the starting point for sponging their profile: http://uriburner.com/about/html/{your-Foursquare-venue-url}. For example:

  1. Access http://uriburner.com/about/html/https://foursquare.com/v/lexington-green/4bab8662f964a5203fb03ae3 :

  2. Click the primary topic value link "Lexington Green":


Alternative Follow-Your-Nose friendly view

We can take a look at the /fct variant of the primaryTopic object page:

  1. Click the Facets link from the footer section "Alternative Linked Data Views" of the page from above:


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