
This script is a tool that makes querying the huge Foursquare database easier. It will search for keywords and return a list of businesses related to that keyword with the possibility of limiting the search by location. You can use this to quickly build a list of businesses in any niche or discover new places near some location.
Features
- search businesses by keyword (e.g. pizza, locksmith, nightclub, restaurants, dentist, etc);
- search by neighborhood, city, state, country;
- returns 14 different fields
- name
- address
- postal code
- city
- state
- phone
- url
- geo coordinates
- tags
- link to menu(if food related)
- number of checkins
- number of users who checked in (indicative of popularity)
- link to facebook
- link to twitter
- link to foursquare page)
- configure which fields you want in the results;
- refine your search by radius;
- export to CSV to further analyze the data;
- each query typically returns between 200 ~ 350 results depending on search term, location and also radius.
Requirements
- PHP 5.6+
- Foursquare API key (free)
Demo
Please check the demo to see how it works. Note that the demo is limited and only returns 100 results per search.
Tags
business CSV data, yellow pages, directory scraper, address scrape, sql, excel, list of business addresses.
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