Q:

Foursquare Venue information

Hi I am using python/beautiful soup to scrap information from foursquare's XML
it seems that after a certain number is reached, I cannot access foursquare at all. 
Does anyone know if I need an access token even if I'm not trying to develop anything? 

A:

Scrapping foursquare content is prohibited ("You shall not (directly or indirectly)... harvest or scrape any Content from the Service;") and you probably triggered the protection mechanism guarding against developers doing this. 
See the foursquare Terms of Service for more details

