Greasemonkey Script: This script enables you to view locked Albums in Orkut style.

You must have encountered various "Unlock Album" scripts in the past. But I can bet over it that this is the best script, which can be customized by you too. It shows the thumbnails of the album photos, just as if you were seeing a normal unlocked album. Here is a screen shot with the script in action.


Now, as I said that it can be customized by you too, you must be thinking what we need to customize? For that just read the functioning of the script below.

Orkut allows storing of 100 snaps in you album. This script checks all the snaps from 1 to 100 and shows it's thumbnails if it exists, with a twist! The twist is that if someone Deletes any photo in between snap number 1 and 100, the script encounters an error when it reaches that deleted snap and stops itself. To cater this error, by default, this script will continue functioning till it encounters 5 consecutive errors. But that doesn't ensure that it will be successful on all albums. You can change this "5 consecutive errors" to "100 consecutive errors"(this ensures maximum results) too but that would burden the Orkut server. So, I leave it to you to decide the number yourself.

See the script source and find "var giveUp = 5;". Change this "5" to whatever number you want as per following the above discussions.

Install the script.

View the source.

Enjoy spying on Albums.


Update (Jan 4, 2008): Recently Orkut updated it's code and provided us with Multiple Album Support, though the limit of the photos remaining to 100 only. Due to these updates, one of your most beloved scripts was rendered unfit for use. We bring to you the updated version of the script. The link of the script has been updated. Enjoy!