User Authentication Endpoints

Overview

This grouping contains endpoints designed for customers who wish to integrate Foursquare's pre-built Placemaker User Interfaces (UIs) directly into their applications. Unlike managed users, this method requires end-users to have or create a Foursquare account.

Similarly to managed users, this flow lets you retrieve an access token that can be used to authenticate your users in calls made to the Places APIs. However, this account linking also allows you to create session tokens for you users, which are used to serve a pre-authenticated Placemaker UI. The session tokens last for 10 minutes, at which point you will need to re-request a session token.

Key Features

• Launch Pre-authenticated Placemaker UIs: After your customer has built the account linking flows for their users to link Foursquare accounts, our /auth/session-token endpoint provides a session token that allows for launching a pre-authenticated version of Foursquare's Placemaker UIs directly within your application.
• Leverage Foursquare's UI Development: Offload the complexities of UI development for place editing and feedback to Foursquare, leveraging our existing, feature-rich interfaces.
• Admin Console & Analytics: View aggregated user statistics and download per-user contribution data for insights in your Developer Console.