Copying all foursquare venues of a city without violating API's usage rules?

Question

Scope:

I am starting an application that will need a very rich database of venues within a certain city right on it's start so i thought that scraping foursquare's database would be a great idea, but seems like scraping volumes over 1000 venues is considered forbidden according to it's usage / data retention policy

My Needs:

Basically, what i want to achieve is a way to allow users to search their favorite venues and receive notifications from them, so having all the venues of this city would be perfect for me, allowing me to store the relationship USER XXX FOLLOWS YYY VENUE

Problem:

Since i can't "copy" / "transfer" all the foursquare venues of a given city to my own database, what can i do to actually "store" the data i need for my own use ?

Is there any workaround for this ? (I don't mean ilegal actions, but some clever use of the API instead).

Answer 1

You can force your users to connect with 4sq (with oauth), then retrieve the data you need using oauth tokenwith 4sq api, which does not violate the rules and put any limits to the amount of data.

You can store user's 4sq id and the venue ids they follow in your own db and retrieve the details as needed. Am I missing sth with this flow?