Foursquare · Capability
Foursquare Places API — search
Foursquare Places API — search. 2 operations. Lead operation: Nearby places. Self-contained Naftiko capability covering one Foursquare business surface.
What You Can Do
GET
Nearbyplaces
— Nearby places
/v1/places/nearby
GET
Searchplaces
— Search for places
/v1/places/search
MCP Tools
nearby-places
Nearby places
read-only
idempotent
search-places
Search for places
read-only
idempotent
Capability Spec
naftiko: 1.0.0-alpha2
info:
label: Foursquare Places API — search
description: 'Foursquare Places API — search. 2 operations. Lead operation: Nearby places. Self-contained Naftiko capability
covering one Foursquare business surface.'
tags:
- Foursquare
- search
created: '2026-05-19'
modified: '2026-05-19'
binds:
- namespace: env
keys:
FOURSQUARE_API_KEY: FOURSQUARE_API_KEY
capability:
consumes:
- type: http
namespace: places-search
baseUri: https://places-api.foursquare.com
description: Foursquare Places API — search business capability. Self-contained, no shared references.
resources:
- name: places-nearby
path: /places/nearby
operations:
- name: nearbyplaces
method: GET
description: Nearby places
outputRawFormat: json
outputParameters:
- name: result
type: object
value: $.
inputParameters:
- name: ll
in: query
type: string
required: true
- name: radius
in: query
type: integer
- name: limit
in: query
type: integer
- name: places-search
path: /places/search
operations:
- name: searchplaces
method: GET
description: Search for places
outputRawFormat: json
outputParameters:
- name: result
type: object
value: $.
inputParameters:
- name: query
in: query
type: string
description: Free-text search term (e.g., "coffee").
- name: ll
in: query
type: string
description: Latitude,longitude pair (e.g., "40.7128,-74.0060").
- name: near
in: query
type: string
description: Geocodable text location (e.g., "New York, NY").
- name: radius
in: query
type: integer
description: Search radius in meters.
- name: categories
in: query
type: string
description: Comma-separated Foursquare category ids.
- name: limit
in: query
type: integer
- name: sort
in: query
type: string
authentication:
type: apikey
key: Authorization
value: '{{env.FOURSQUARE_API_KEY}}'
placement: header
exposes:
- type: rest
namespace: places-search-rest
port: 8080
description: REST adapter for Foursquare Places API — search. One Spectral-compliant resource per consumed operation,
prefixed with /v1.
resources:
- path: /v1/places/nearby
name: places-nearby
description: REST surface for places-nearby.
operations:
- method: GET
name: nearbyplaces
description: Nearby places
call: places-search.nearbyplaces
with:
ll: rest.ll
radius: rest.radius
limit: rest.limit
outputParameters:
- type: object
mapping: $.
- path: /v1/places/search
name: places-search
description: REST surface for places-search.
operations:
- method: GET
name: searchplaces
description: Search for places
call: places-search.searchplaces
with:
query: rest.query
ll: rest.ll
near: rest.near
radius: rest.radius
categories: rest.categories
limit: rest.limit
sort: rest.sort
outputParameters:
- type: object
mapping: $.
- type: mcp
namespace: places-search-mcp
port: 9090
transport: http
description: MCP adapter for Foursquare Places API — search. One tool per consumed operation, routed inline through this
capability's consumes block.
tools:
- name: nearby-places
description: Nearby places
hints:
readOnly: true
destructive: false
idempotent: true
call: places-search.nearbyplaces
with:
ll: tools.ll
radius: tools.radius
limit: tools.limit
outputParameters:
- type: object
mapping: $.
- name: search-places
description: Search for places
hints:
readOnly: true
destructive: false
idempotent: true
call: places-search.searchplaces
with:
query: tools.query
ll: tools.ll
near: tools.near
radius: tools.radius
categories: tools.categories
limit: tools.limit
sort: tools.sort
outputParameters:
- type: object
mapping: $.