Note that actions where the destination user can be bothered, you will get a confirmation message to check if you really want to continue or not: To start a call with an username using the URI, the action that you need to use is call:

In our examples, the username will be the test user of skype namely echo123, so don't forget to change it in your own markup: 1. Simple isn't? In the following section you will get all possible actions that you can achieve through the URI schema. For example with the given user example123, to start a chat you would use: Start Chat Where should be replaced with the skype username that will be used to execute the action and replaced by the desired action as call, see profile information, start chat etc. So converted to a real URL in the href attribute of a link it would look like: ?'> Link Text The format for skype has the following pattern: :?. Remember that if Skype is not running, then the action won't work. Once the user chooses the Skype app to open this kind of URI, the request action will be executed. In case that the user selects the wrong app, it can be changed in the Default Apps for custom protocols for example in Windows 10: By default it's easy to choose which app should be used. The process that runs once the user clicks on the link is simple, as first an alert dialog of the browser will appear asking for confirmation about the interaction from the browser with an installed app on the system:Īccording to the operative system installed on the client, a system dialog should appear for the user to confirm which application should be used to open that kind of links (obviously skype). The Uniformed Resource Identifier of Skype depends obviously on an installed, updated and running Skype client. The receiving client must obviously concern itself with options related to accepting calls and chats, particularly if your application or webpage is using Skype URIs to connect customers and other interested parties with businesses and organizations. In this article you will learn how to start a Chat, Call, VoiceMail and other common actions using simply a link element with HTML (following the URI Scheme). Just like the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) scheme for email addresses (the widely known mailto), you can use a custom scheme to interact with the Skype client in HTML.

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