Integration · Web search and research
AI agents for Foursquare Places
Find places anywhere with Foursquare's database of over 100 million points of interest.
- Actions
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- Read
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- Write
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Actions
What your agents can do in Foursquare Places
Find places anywhere with Foursquare's database of over 100 million points of interest: search businesses and landmarks by name, category or keyword near a place or coordinates, ask in plain language ("quiet cafe with wifi near Union Square"), autocomplete, match a known name and address to its Foursquare record, and get a place's address, phone, website, categories, chain, hours, rating and visitor tips.
Read 6
Look things up. Nothing changes.
Search places
Searches places by name, category, chain, phone number or keyword near a location and returns up to limit in results, each with fsq_place_id, name, categories, location.
Ask for places in plain language
Answers a plain-language request for places, like "best cocktail lounge in Williamsburg" or "kid-friendly brunch with outdoor seating", and returns matching results.
Autocomplete places and addresses
Suggests places, localities and searches as a person types (at least 3 characters).
Match a business to its Foursquare record
Finds the one Foursquare place for a known business name and street address (English-speaking countries only) and returns it in place with a match_score.
Get a place's details
Returns one place by its fsq_place_id: name, categories, full address, coordinates, phone, email, website, social accounts, chain and related places (like an airport's terminals).
Get visitor tips for a place
Returns short reviews and tips visitors left at a place, popular or newest first, in result: each with text, created_at, lang and agree counts.
Write 0
Create, change or send.
This tool only reads, so nothing in it changes.
Read only
Every action here only reads, so an agent can look things up in Foursquare Places but cannot change anything there.
Connection
How it connects
Connect it once in the console, then give it to the agents and workflows that need it.
Paste an API key from your Foursquare Places account.
What you enter
- Service API key
Kept safe
- Credentials are stored encrypted with your organization's own keys.
- They are opened only by the process that makes the call, at the moment it runs, and never go into a prompt or the browser.
- Calls go only to the tool's own servers.
Ideas
Ideas to start with
Starting points made only from the actions above. Mix them with any other tool your agents can use.
- 01
Ask about your Foursquare Places data
Ask a question in plain words. The agent can search places, ask for places in plain language or get a place's details in Foursquare Places, then answers with what it found.
- 02
Share what it finds in Slack
Give one agent Foursquare Places and Slack: it can search places in Foursquare Places and post a summary to a Slack channel in the same run.
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Run it as a workflow step
Add "Search places" to a workflow, and it runs in Foursquare Places the same way every time, with or without an agent.
Works well with
More Web search and research tools
- Brave Search3 actionsSearch the web, news and images with Brave's independent search index.
- Exa3 actionsSearch the web with Exa's AI search engine, read the text of any page, and get cited answers to questions, for research by agents and workflows.
- Tavily3 actionsSearch the web with Tavily's search engine built for AI agents, pull clean content out of web pages, and list the pages of a site.
- Firecrawl5 actionsTurn any web page into clean Markdown, search the web, list a site's pages, and crawl small sites, with Firecrawl.
- Wikipedia10 actionsLook things up on Wikipedia, no key needed: search articles, get an article's summary or its full text as plain text, find it in other languages, see its edit history and how many people read it.
- Google Maps9 actionsFind places and businesses (search by text or nearby, autocomplete, full place details with hours, phone, website and ratings), turn addresses into coordinates and back, plan routes with travel time and distance.
FAQ
Foursquare Places and MyDeepAgents
Can MyDeepAgents connect to Foursquare Places?
Yes. The Foursquare Places connector has 6 actions, all of which only read. Your agents can call them as tools, and your workflows can run them as steps.
How do I connect Foursquare Places?
Paste an API key from your Foursquare Places account. You'll need: Service API key. Credentials are stored encrypted with your organization's own keys and are opened only at the moment of a call.
Can an agent change data in Foursquare Places without asking?
No. Every Foursquare Places action only reads, so an agent can look things up there but cannot change anything.
Can I use Foursquare Places in workflows as well as agents?
Yes. Every Foursquare Places action also works as a step in a workflow, and the same connection serves your agents and your workflows.
Early access
Put Foursquare Places to work
Connect it in a few minutes, give an agent the actions it needs, and decide which changes wait for a person.