Orkut Scraps now via RSS!

by | posted: May 21, 2007 9 comments


On 8th May we had a post dedicated to – What is going to increase GPRS usage in India?

In which we talked about a WAP version of Orkut would really work wonders.

In the same post as a comment I’d posted:

And that’s exactly what Ngcoders have come up with. They have made a neat php script by which you can get notified of Orkut scraps via RSS Feed.

The script converts Orkut scraps into a RSS feed so you can check scraps in your favourite feed reader without even logging into your Orkut account.

To get your scraps as RSS feed, just use the URL given below and replace the XYZ with your Orkut ScrapBook userid:

http://www.indian-tv.com/orkut.php?uid=XYZ

To get your Orkut ScrapBook uid -
Login to orkut and click scrapbook link in the sidebar. You will see the uid parameter in the browser address bar.

What’s cool?
You can not only track your scraps but also track scraps of anyone who is registered on Orkut. And they won’t even know that you visited their profile! This will definitely promote voyeurism…but it’s still pretty cool!

Well we posted that a lot users have started deleting scraps…..well now via this you’ll be able to spy on those chaps too!

This is how my Orkut scraps look like in Google Reader:

Don’t know what’s RSS? Check out the WATblog RSS tutorial ASAP.


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Ekalavya Bhattacharya

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9 Responses to “Orkut Scraps now via RSS!”

  1. Reply
    Brandy
    May 21, 2007 at 5:28 am #

    Nifty script. good work!

  2. Reply
    Srikanth LOGIC
    May 21, 2007 at 6:06 am #

    Awesome Awesome.. Orkut is already on mobile i guess.Redirect feeds to yahoo mail and set an alert.Woah.. Tats awesome.

    /* Note: A scrap book is different than your Orkut profile id. */

    They are same.Check it and Edit please

  3. Reply
    Ekalavya
    May 21, 2007 at 6:14 am #

    @ Srikanth – well funny thing….my profile id and scrap book id appeared different when i was subscribing to my feed! I landed up on someone elses…
    Seems to be working now (H)

    @ Brandy: Yeah nice work by ng chaps. Wonder if they read WATblog.

  4. Reply
    Deepak
    May 21, 2007 at 6:17 am #

    juss set up my mobile feed reader to get my scraps.
    great work to the coders!
    anychance of this getting patched by google?

  5. Reply
    Hrishikesh
    May 21, 2007 at 6:24 am #

    Hope orkut doesnt patch this. This is excellent! Thanks for posting this WATguys

  6. Reply
    NGCoders
    May 24, 2007 at 12:14 pm #

    Thx for the writeup guys

    Another thing which might interest you guys

    http://www.ngcoders.com/php/google-analytics-rss-feed/

  7. Reply
    Rupesh
    August 15, 2007 at 5:30 am #

    Extending this idea, you can check orkut scraps inside Gtalk itself, check out how:- <a href='http://fundubytes.blogspot.com/2007/07/read-your-orkut-scraps-community-topics.html">http://fundubytes.blogspot.com/2007/07/read-your-orkut-scraps-community-topics.html</a&gt;
    You login to orkut only to reply them… :)

  8. Reply
    funny scraps
    November 14, 2008 at 5:22 pm #

    i didnt know that we can view our orkut scraps using rss .. will try it out ..

    and thank you for the tips honey ;)

  9. Reply
    orkut scraps
    August 19, 2010 at 1:20 pm #

    nice post …thnaks a lottttt…….

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