get checkins or venue_history of a user from foursquare

Question

Does anybody has any idea about how to get a venue history of a user from foursquare? I am using foursquare2 gem and I can connect to foursquare. I want to send a user's email address to foursquare and get the venue history of the user.

Answer 1

You can't get the checkin history of a user without them authorising your app. What you are suggesting (using someone's email address to get their venue history) isn't possible.

Answer 2

As Martin said, you'll need the user to authorize your application to access their check-in history. Once they've authorized your app, you can call the users/checkins endpoint to access their check-in history, or users/venuehistory to access their venue history.