Booking tatkal tickets on IRCTC the supercool way

Posted by Anirudh on December 31, 2009; This entry is filed under misc.
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This article is a short demo to using Firefox’s Autofill Forms extension to book tatkal tickets. First step is to go to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4775 and install the extension. You’ll need to restart Firefox for the extension to take effect.

Now that it’s done, head to the IRCTC website and login. Now head to the Quick Book page. You can fill in the details.quick book on IRCTC
If you do not know the train number, you can get it from the “Plan My Travel” page. Now that you’ve filled up all the details you want to, right click on one of the form textboxes.

Edit : IRCTC has now disabled right clicks. As a workaround you need to paste javascript:void(document.oncontextmenu=null) into your address bar to re-enable the right click. See my post on IRCTC’s disabled right click.

Click on the “Add complete form as profile” option.add complete form as profile

A new window like this will now open up

Autofill forms profile

You can close the window and reload the QuickBook page. Press the Alt+j key combination to autofill the form. You can reload the page as many times as you want and press Alt+j to autofill.

 

This post is dedicated to my good friend Dhanya.

Edit : OK, I’m giving into blackmail from someone crafty and cunning(not my words) :P

@gjoos : i want my name included in that blogpost if you want me to TRY booking tickets for you tomorrow !!! :P

So, Divya chechi.. this post is dedicated to you as well :P

Update : Wondering what CKWL means? Check out my blog post on CKWL status on Tatkal railway ticket.

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18 Comments

  1. Twitted by gjoos December 31st, 2009 at 5:31 PM

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  2. achu December 31st, 2009 at 6:01 PM

    how about a pay per use royalty for these ppl ??

  3. nikilv January 11th, 2010 at 6:26 PM

    autofill was really helpful in registering to a private torrent site. we need to finish up in 1 min .. so first when we fill up ti will timeout .i used auto fill to succesfully register durin my 2nd attempt

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  5. Bhanu Pratap January 31st, 2010 at 12:02 PM

    Hello,

    Thanks for posting such a great information on India railways, but I think the main issue with IRCTC is the REFUND.
    The refund policy is very bad, it may take more then 3-4 months even after many followups via emails and even send a written complaint to the GM of Indian Railways.. This is the only drawback, our Govt. should take some action and improve the refund policy so that customer do not face at least refund problem.

  6. Anirudh February 4th, 2010 at 12:45 PM

    @Bhanu
    What is the context for your refund? Did you apply for refund after a failed transaction with the bank? So far I’ve never had problems with refunds, which is why I asked. In case of failed bank transactions/ticket booking they usually credit it back to the account automatically

  7. Prakash April 11th, 2010 at 5:10 PM

    Hi, Thanks for the great tips. It helps me lot to book tatkal ticket.

  8. Ashutosh May 18th, 2010 at 4:44 PM

    sir, Plz help me I cant do it, and how can i do with irctc plz help me

  9. KAMLESH May 29th, 2010 at 7:45 AM

    thanks a lot for ur this great information.
    one more thing i wud like to know wt abt if i have a broadband speed of 8/16/32 mbps and hw will it increase the chances of booking opening tatkal tkts.
    thx

  10. Anirban Pal June 3rd, 2010 at 2:39 PM

    Hi,

    Once I have used ur mentioned method to book online train ticket in tathkal, but now irctc has blockd rightclick in their pages, so can’t use the method again.

    Regards
    Anirban Pal

  11. sid June 4th, 2010 at 6:43 AM

    i think quickbook page does not allow right clicking now .
    what now?

  12. Rohit Nair June 6th, 2010 at 7:24 PM

    “right click on one of the form textboxes” Try doing that now.

    “Sorry, you do not have permission to right click” :|
    Workarounds?

  13. Saroj June 8th, 2010 at 11:39 AM

    Hay Thanks, for this nice work. I had booked my tatkal ticket by this way. But Now it does not work. When you fill the form and try to rightclik it show the message,”sorry you don’t have permission to right click. Is there any solutions for this.

  14. IRCTC disabled right click | Dreams of Thought June 9th, 2010 at 8:02 AM

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  15. Anirudh June 9th, 2010 at 8:14 AM

    Have found a workaround to the right click problem. Have updated the post :)

  16. Jose Cyriac June 9th, 2010 at 7:42 PM

    But if the site is down @ 8:00 am and 30 seconds, there is no use with this technique. and if you have a very good typing speed, i dont think you need this automation. I have booked Tatkal tickets in the past within 1 minute without the help of any automation.

  17. Anirudh June 11th, 2010 at 7:32 AM

    If site is down at 8:00:30 there’s no use of any technique. This one is for mere mortals who take time to type :D

  18. Dhruv June 28th, 2010 at 6:28 PM

    You are great. That javascript solution is really helpful.

    Thanks

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