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I am trying to use the foursquare API for the first time and have not been able to get a 200 status code no matter what I tried. Using directly the code foursquare provides in its docs, I attempt to do a userless request, replacing my client ID and secret where necessary.

def places_search(term,street, zipcode):

    params = dict(

        client_id='MY_CLIENT_ID',

        client_secret='MY_CLIENT_SECRET',

        v='20181122',

        near=street + 'New York, NY ' + zipcode,

        query=term,

        limit=1

    )

    url = "https://api.foursquare.com/v2/venues/explore"

    resp = requests.get(url=url, params=params)

    #grabbing the JSON result

    data = json.loads(resp.text)



    return data



print(places_search("starbucks","3rd avenue","10009"))

I get the following error code:

{'meta': {'code': 400, 'errorType': 'invalid_auth', 'errorDetail': 'Missing access credentials. See https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/api/configuration/authentication for details.', 'requestId': '5bf6cbb26a607137bc33b7f2'}, 'response': {}}

I find it odd given my request is userless and matches exactly the way they outline it in the docs... Would you have an idea what I am doing wrong?

Thanks,

As per the documentation:

To make a userless request, specify your consumer key’s Client ID and
Secret instead of an auth token in the request URL.

Like this:

https://api.foursquare.com/v2/venues/search?ll=40.7,-74&client_id=CLIENT_ID&client_secret=CLIENT_SECRET&v=YYYYMMDD

Since you are passing the credentials as the request parameters, the server cannot authenticate you.