Crumbs!

I’ve been playing around with foursquare lately, and noticed that they have an interesting API. The way I see it, the only reasonable use of an API is to get me some more mayorships. So i put together a little script to find me “easy” mayorships nearby.

In the process, i learned that OAuth is painful, and i hate it. So for now, i’m forcing python to send my authorization header manually. (yay! dirty hacks!)

This has also taught me that there are a fairly large number of foursquare venues that are just someone’s house, and not a real venue. However, most of these are easy mayorships. So here’s the deal: if your house is on foursquare, I will come over way too much and steal your mayorship!!!

thank you, that is all.