# Foursquare Venue Intelligence MCP

> Foursquare Venue Intelligence MCP is a paid API for AI agents from api.m2mcent.com, paid per call via x402, $0.12/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Retrieves Foursquare venue intelligence data including place details, ratings, tips, and location insights for a given query or venue identifier.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://api.m2mcent.com/foursquare-venue-intel-mcp/api/process
- Price: $0.12/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/foursquare-venue-intelligence-mcp-9bcf628f
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Hgx8QepH2_FKCvKIUZbvF

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability foursquare-venue-intelligence-mcp-9bcf628f -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up Foursquare venue intel for 'The Modern' restaurant in New York — I want ratings, tips, hours, and category info?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need rich, crowd-sourced Foursquare venue data including tips, ratings, and category details for a named place or location query. Prefer it over generic web search when structured place intelligence (hours, price tier, coordinates, tips) is needed in a machine-readable format. Best suited for travel planning, competitive benchmarking, or any workflow requiring trusted point-of-interest data from the Foursquare dataset.

## Known failure modes

- Venue not found if query is too ambiguous or misspelled — returns empty or null result
- Multiple venues matched — may return the wrong location if city/region not specified
- Foursquare data unavailable for obscure or newly opened venues
- Rate limiting or upstream Foursquare API errors causing timeouts
- Malformed input string causing processing failure

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## Output

Returns structured Foursquare venue data including venue name, address, geographic coordinates, category classifications, aggregate rating, price tier, opening hours, popular visitor tips, contact information, and other place attributes relevant to the queried venue.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "payload": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "success": true
 }
}
```

## More

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