Take the 2-minute tour ×  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
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vote 1 down vote accepted  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.  share|improve this answer
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