Quite simple. Scratchpads have a nodetype of 'scratchpad', so simple send 'type=scratchpad' as a parameter to the script. To access my scratchpad for example, you'd use the following URL. This method will work 100% of the time (well, it should anyhow).

/index.pl?node=saskaqueer's%20scratchpad;type=scratchpad
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