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The search API gives me a list of venues in the city but with no apparent order in terms of usersCount or checkinsCount. Some have a dozen, some have thousands. Is there a way to get them sorted by either of those counts?

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There's no way to explicitly search/sort by total check-ins or total user count.

The best alternatives are to rely on /venues/trending which uses realtime popularity or on /venues/search with intent=browse to get the "most significant" venues in an area.

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Thanks, that worked! One thing though: if you're using the near parameter with a city name, instead of ll (lat/long), the API doesn't accept the intent=browse parameter. Still returns sufficiently relevant results though. –  obvio171 Aug 21 '12 at 20:38
You may also want to check out the /venues/explore endpoint, which returns "recommended" venues (though these recommendations change based on time of day and a few other factors, so they're not "universal" results) –  akdotcom Aug 31 '12 at 14:24
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