Surf Orkut on your Mobile!

Orkut is one of the most popular social networking websites and for a Orkut freak like me, it is very important that i can always stay in touch with my friends.

Although the official Orkut FAQ still specifies that it cannot be accessed from your mobile, it is in fact possible to access Orkut from your mobile. All is takes is a set of bookmarks by which you can join communities, accept friends, scrap users etc.

Orkut Login page problems:
If you cannot see the username and password fields when you open www.orkut.com on your mobile, you are probably using an old version of Opera Mini. Update Opera to the latest version and the login page should work properly just by using www.orkut.com (Read more about Opera Mini)

In case you are unable to update opera due to some reason, create a new bookmark in Opera Mini :
1) Go to Menu > Bookmarks and select Add.
2) Set the title as "Orkut" and the address as

https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLoginBox?service=orkut&nui=2&uilel=1&skipvpage=true&continue=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.orkut.com%2FRedirLogin.aspx%3Fmsg%3D0%26page%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.orkut.com%252F&followup=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.orkut.com%2FGLogin.aspx&hl=en-US">https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLoginBox?service=orkut&nui=2&uilel=1&skipvpage=true&continue=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.orkut.com%2FRedirLogin.aspx%3Fmsg%3D0%26page%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.orkut.com%252F&followup=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.orkut.com%2FGLogin.aspx&hl=en-US
This link doesn't go though any proxy and is though the Google login page :) The link is pretty big so instead of manually typing it out you can save it to a text file and send that to your mobile, then copy the link (don't know how? click here) and paste it in your Opera Mini bookmarks.

For all the following operations instead of clicking a link which simply reloads the page use the bookmarks specified to achieve the desired result.

Scrap other users: UPDATED : 8th September 2007
Create a new bookmark with the title as "Scrap @Orkut " and set the address as

javascript:{document.forms[5].action = document.location + "&Action.submit=1"; document.forms[5].submit();}

Now every time you want to scrap someone, just type your message in your friends scrapbook message box (once you type your message the page will reload, this will not cause any problems) and then open this bookmark. Your scrap would then be posted.

Joining communities:
Add a bookmark with the title as "Join Community@ Orkut" and set the address as

(UPDATED: 17th June 2007)

javascript:_submitForm(document.getElementById('b1'),'join');

Once you are presented with the option " Are you sure you want to join this community?" load the bookmark to join the community.

For Adding a user as a friend/Accept friend request:
Add a bookmark with the title as "Add Friend@orkut"and set the address as

(UPDATED: 17th June 2007)

javascript:_submitForm(document.getElementById('b1'),'yes');

Use this bookmark instead of pressing "Confirm" on the friend confirmation screen.

For Updating Profile data:
Add a bookmark with the title as "Update Profile@ Orkut" and set the address as

(UPDATED: 6th September 2007)
javascript:{var x = document.getElementById("mboxfull").getElementsByTagName("a"); _submitForm(x[x.length-2],'update');}

Use this bookmark instead of pressing the "update" button.

For Updating the Settings :
Add a bookmark with the title as "Update Settings @ Orkut" and set the address as
(UPDATED: 6th September 2007)
javascript:saveClicked('form');

Use this bookmark instead of pressing the "update" button.

For Creating new Forum topics/ Replying to existing forum topics:
Add a bookmark with the title as "Forum topic reply@ Orkut" and set the address as

javascript:{var form = document.forms[1];var node = document.createElement('input');node.setAttribute("type","submit");node.setAttribute("name", "Action.submit" );form.appendChild(node); node.click();}

Use this bookmarklet instead of pressing the "submit" button. This bookmarklet is very similar to the previous one, except that Action.submit is used instead of Action.update.


Accepting/Rejecting new community member requests (if you are a community owner) :
Add the following two bookmarklets
To accept new member requests:
javascript:document.forms['accept_0'].submit();

To decline new member requests:
javascript:document.forms['decline_0'].submit();

These bookmarklets work on the first user in the accept/reject list. So if you have multiple pending requests, you have have to process them in the same sequence.



Hopefully things should change pretty soon . Lets hope that we have a better version of Opera Mini soon :)

(UPDATED: 8th September 2007)
Google seems to be very fond of changing its javascript functions quite often (every 15 days?), kindly drop a comment incase any of the above mentioned bookmarklets do not work anymore!