From Lonely Planet Groups Wiki

Welcome to the Lonely Planet Groups Developer Platform

Lonely Planet Groups is a place where people share their travel related passions.

To make the Groups experience richer and more engaging, we have enabled Lonely Planet Groups as an Open Social (version 0.8) container. OpenSocial enables third-party applications to access traveler profile data, process group memberships and update a group or member’s activity feed. That means that anyone can write applications for groups to install and use.

This Wiki is the place to come to find out how to develop applications, and to share your tips with other developers. Everyone is welcome to contribute. We only ask that you play nice and respect the contributions of others. If you need info on how to use the Wiki check out the Wiki User's Guide here. We have had a bit of spam on the top level pages, but the detail pages should be open to edit for registered wiki users.

There are two main parts to the LP Groups documentation, the Developer Guide which is where you'll find general information about applications and how to construct, test and add them to the site. In the Developer Reference you will find details on the Groups Developer Platform implementation of the Open Social API, and the Lonely Planet Content API.

We also ask that you familiarise yourself with the Lonely Planet Groups Developer Terms.

What's New

Groups applications/ gadgets can now be configured to allow access to thrid party servers that require OAuth authentication. We currently support direct access ("two-legged") authentication only. Delegated access ("three-legged") is not yet supported.

See Accessing External Services from your Application in the Developer Guide.

You can also register applications for Lonely Planet Content API access at your API Developer page.

What is this place?

We've created this wiki for documentation connected to the Lonely Planet Developer Platform for Groups. It's part of LP Labs the R&D arm of Lonely Planet