Using FourSquare's API to post location checkins to social media

What is this, 2016? I like sharing my location with my pocket friends sometimes. If I'm in a cool bar that they know, perhaps they can recommend a drink. If they live nearby, maybe they want to come for dinner. Not everyone has FourSquare's SwarmApp, so it is handy to automatically share its updates with other people. Of course, Swarm doesn't cross-post to social media because walled-gardens are the most profitable. This is my attempt to open it back up again. Here's what they look like on BlueSky and Mastodon: Checked in to Hamburger Fischmarkt, Große Elbstr. 9 (Fischmarkt), Germany Probably a *bit* early for a breakfast beer. See on Swarm[image or embed]— Terence Eden (@edent.tel) 24 May 2026 at 07:45 Post by @Edent@mastodon.social View on Mastodon tl;dr You can get the SwarmToSocial code from my GitLab. At the moment, developers get 10,000 API calls for free each month. That's probably more than enough for most personal uses. Documentation I was pleasantly surprised that…