Check in to a Foursquare venue

[Capt4Chris]

Hello,

Can you add a feature to check in to a Foursquare venue?

You could also spread out with this feature to Facebook & Google+ but I'm mostly interested in Foursquare.

[Luka Kama]

Hi,
I could add them to the open source plugin pack that I'm developing.

[Capt4Chris]

Interesting... What would that do exactly?

[Luka Kama]

The plugin pack will be a collection of KLets experimental commands developed only in Italian and English, and they will be freely installable from Play Store as separate application (I will release is as a free app, however the plugin pack will require full version of KLets).
Once installed, commands inside the plugin pack will be directly usable from KLets like normal commands.

The code will be maintained on Github here (currently there is just the project README): https://github.com/lukakama/klets-plugins

For Foursquare, i must say that I never used it, so I had some difficulties imaging how a check in voice command should behave.

I was thinking on something like this:

1. It is said to KLets the command: "Check in to 'venue name'"
2. KLets tries to retrieve the venue name said from Foursquare data
3. If just a single venue is found, KLets automatically performs the check in into Foursquare (asking a confirmation if the venue's name doesn't match the name said to KLets)
4. Else, if more than one venue is found, KLets asks for which one to check in (listing only the first 6 venues found), performing the check in into Foursquare once one is selected
5. Else, if no venue is found, the command will quit (telling that no venue has been found)

What do you say?

[Capt4Chris]

That sounds pretty good! 2 thoughts:

-When you search a venue in Foursquare it will list venues it finds that are very far away (like 20+ miles, for example). So for #3 I would add some logic such that: If it finds a single venue within 2 or 3 miles it will automatically perform the check-in at that close venue.

-Also, Foursquare may do this by default, but maybe the search can act as a wildcard. So if you say "Vesuvius", it would find "Mount Vesuvius" or if you say "Garda", it would find "Lake Garda".

Thanks for working on this! I know Foursquare encourages other apps to integrate with their service so hopefully integrating Foursquare with KLets won't be too difficult. For example, you can use the Waze navigation app to check in to venues after it gives you driving directions there. But it would be awesome to be able to do this with KLets because then it would be completely hands-free!

[Luka Kama]

-When you search a venue in Foursquare it will list venues it finds that are very far away (like 20+ miles, for example). So for #3 I would add some logic such that: If it finds a single venue within 2 or 3 miles it will automatically perform the check-in at that close venue.

Ok, I will try to apply the same logic inside KLets.

-Also, Foursquare may do this by default, but maybe the search can act as a wildcard. So if you say "Vesuvius", it would find "Mount Vesuvius" or if you say "Garda", it would find "Lake Garda".

I'm using Foursquare public APIs to perform the search, and it seems to automatically works as you said.

Said that, I think that in a month I will release the first version of the plugin pack with the first couple of additional commands.

[Capt4Chris]

very cool! I will try to keep an eye on this thread so I can stay up to date with the progress.

Thanks for all the hard work you put into this app!

[Capt4Chris]

Hello,

Just wanted to let you know that I've been using the Foursquare check-in feature for the last few months. It's working great. Thanks again for adding!!