### Public Beta Feature

This documentation covers a feature currently in Public Beta. Access is available to anyone interested in building personalized experiences for their end-users.

This feature is subject to the [Personalization API (Self-Service) Public Beta End user License Agreement](https://location.foursquare.com/legal/terms/personalization-apis-self-service-eula/).

#### Parameters

- **string** (required): The API version date as documented [here](https://docs.foursquare.com/developer/reference/versioning); e.g. 20231010
- **query** (string): A string to be searched against a venue's tips, category, etc.
- **ll** (string): The latitude/longitude around which to retrieve place information. This must be specified as latitude,longitude (e.g., ll=41.8781,-87.6298). **Required if `near` is not specified.**
- **near** (string): A string naming a place in the world. If the near string is not geocodable, returns a failed_geocode error. Otherwise, searches within the bounds of the geocode and adds a geocode object to the response. **Required if `ll` is not specified.**
- **radius** (int32): Limit results to venues within this many meters of the specified location. Defaults to a city-wide area. Only valid for requests that use categoryId or query. The maximum supported radius is currently 100,000 meters.
- **categoryId** (string): A comma-separated list of categories to limit results to. If you specify categoryId. Specifying a radius may improve results. If specifying a top-level category, all sub-categories will also match the query.
- **limit** (int32): Number of results to return; up to 50.
- **url** (string): A third-party URL which we will attempt to match against our map of venues to URLs.
- **accept** (string, enum): Defaults to application/json. Generated from available response content types. Allowed:

- `application/json`
  - `text/plain`

#### Response Example

```json
{
  "meta": {
    "code": 200,
    "requestId": "5ac51d7e6a607143d811cecb"
  },
  "response": {
    "venues": [
      {
        "id": "5642aef9498e51025cf4a7a5",
        "name": "Mr. Purple",
        "location": {
          "address": "180 Orchard St",
          "crossStreet": "btwn Houston & Stanton St",
          "lat": 40.72173744277209,
          "lng": -73.98800687282996,
          "labeledLatLngs": [
            {
              "label": "display",
              "lat": 40.72173744277209,
              "lng": -73.98800687282996
            }
          ],
          "distance": 8,
          "postalCode": "10002",
          "cc": "US",
          "city": "New York",
          "state": "NY",
          "country": "United States",
          "formattedAddress": [
            "180 Orchard St (btwn Houston & Stanton St)",
            "New York, NY 10002",
            "United States"
          ]
        },
        "categories": [
          {
            "id": "4bf58dd8d48988d1d5941735",
            "name": "Hotel Bar",
            "pluralName": "Hotel Bars",
            "shortName": "Hotel Bar",
            "icon": {
              "prefix": "https://ss3.4sqi.net/img/categories_v2/travel/hotel_bar_",
              "suffix": ".png"
            },
            "primary": true
          }
        ],
        "venuePage": {
          "id": "150747252"
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}
```