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title: How Localistico publishes your data to Foursquare
description: This article explains the changes Foursquare is having and how they will affect Localistico.
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# How Localistico publishes your data to Foursquare

## How our Foursquare integration works and what it means for your profiles.

In 2020, Foursquare merged with Factual. Bringing their two places datasets together changed how brands and partners manage their data on Foursquare.

Before the merger, Localistico connected to Foursquare through its API. That let us publish, extract and discover profiles, and manage the reviews left on them. Whatever we published from Localistico was treated as the single source of truth for each profile.

Foursquare doesn’t work that way any more. It now collects data from all its partners and sources and decides what to publish to Foursquare Places. Data from listing syndication partners such as Localistico still takes priority over other sources.

**How we send your data**

Once a week, we upload a file with your locations’ data to Foursquare’s server. It includes:

- name and category
- address and coordinates
- phone number
- website
- regular opening hours (special hours aren’t included)
- status (open or closed)
- Facebook, Instagram and X (Twitter) links (It's recommended to add them to help Foursquare to index your data correctly.)

**Where your data appears**

Foursquare Places data is used by Foursquare’s Swarm app and by the companies that license the data from Foursquare. Foursquare closed its City Guide app in December 2024, and the web version in April 2025. 

**What’s no longer possible**

Foursquare doesn’t offer an API to brands or partners. That means we can’t discover or extract profiles from Foursquare, and you can’t reply to Foursquare reviews from Localistico.

**Do I need Foursquare credentials?**

No. The weekly upload doesn’t use credentials, so you don’t need to connect a Foursquare account in Localistico.

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