Getting Gowalla API Registration History

Question

I play with the Gowalla API and wonder if anyone has found a way to get a list of all the latest checks (only your own, not counting friends). The documentation is pretty awful.

Answer 1

You can use their API Explorer to find out what is available from an API perspective. This is pretty neat and serves as good documentation, just look at the REST-style URLs .

Here is the basic code to get the last 5 checks. You will need an API key.

$username = 'sco';
$api_key = 'f6cd524ac9c4413abfb41d7123757d9';
$checkin_num = 5;
$url = "http://api.gowalla.com/users/{$username}/stamps?limit={$checkin_num}";

// setup curl
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array (
    "Accept: application/json",
    "X-Gowalla-API-Key: {$api_key}",
));
$body = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$json = json_decode($body, true);
foreach($json['stamps'] as $stamp) {
    print $stamp['spot']['name'] . '<br/>';
    print "<pre>";
    print_r($stamp);
    print "</pre>";
}

Here is what the check object looks like 'stamp':

Array
(
    [spot] => Array
        (
            [image_url] => http://static.gowalla.com/categories/24-standard.png
            [url] => /spots/19890
            [lat] => 38.9989524833
            [address] => Array
                (
                    [locality] => Kansas City
                    [region] => MO
                )

            [lng] => -94.5939345333
            [name] => The GAF Pub & Grille
        )

    [first_checkin_at] => 2010-06-12T19:16:57+00:00
    [checkins_count] => 1
    [last_checkin_at] => 2010-06-12T19:16:57+00:00
)

Answer 2

http://api.gowalla.com/users/USERNAME/events, . page, . Accept application/json, Gowalla 500 .