{"id":47,"date":"2016-12-12T13:21:05","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T13:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.daftlogic.com\/blog\/?p=47"},"modified":"2016-12-12T22:42:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T22:42:55","slug":"how-to-create-a-skype-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daftlogic.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/12\/how-to-create-a-skype-link\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Create a Skype Link"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Get to the Point<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">OK, use <\/span><strong><em><span class=\"s2\">skype:username<\/span><\/em><\/strong><span class=\"s1\"> as in <strong><em>&lt;a href=&#8221;skype:username&#8221;&gt;Find Me on Skype!&lt;\/a&gt;<\/em><\/strong><\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Belated Introduction<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It is possible to make a clickable link in your email, blog or other online media to make it easy for someone to connect with you on Skype. This avoids the hassle of having to explain your username and hope that they search for and find it it correctly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Instead of providing a standard HTTP link as a URL (&lt;a href=&#8221;https:\/\/www.daftlogic.com&#8221;&gt;Daft Logic&lt;\/a&gt;) you can make a Skype URL (&lt;a href=&#8221;skype:username&#8221;&gt;Find Me on Skype!&lt;\/a&gt;)<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Additional Parameters<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">You can also add a parameter to the URL to perform an action:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Call: <strong>skype:username?call<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Add: <strong>skype:username?add<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Chat: s<strong>kype:username?chat<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">View profile:<strong> skype:username?userinfo<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Leave a voicemail: <strong>skype:username?voicemail<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Send file: <\/span><strong><span class=\"s2\">skype:username?sendfile<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Test it Out<\/h2>\n<p>You can use Skype&#8217;s call back to test it. Try this link:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"skype:echo123?call\">Call the Skype Echo \/ Sound Test Service<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&lt;a href=&#8221;skype:echo123?call&#8221;&gt;Call the Skype Echo \/ Sound Test Service&lt;\/a&gt;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">External Links<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/office\/dn745878.aspx?f=255&amp;MSPPError=-2147217396\">Skype development<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/office\/dn745878.aspx?f=255&amp;MSPPError=-2147217396\">https:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/office\/dn745878.aspx?f=255&amp;MSPPError=-2147217396<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.office.com\/Skype\/sdks#skypeURIs\">Skype URIs<\/a>\u00a0Microsoft \/ Skype official documentation &#8211;\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.office.com\/Skype\/sdks#skypeURIs\">https:\/\/dev.office.com\/Skype\/sdks#skypeURIs<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get to the Point OK, use skype:username as in &lt;a href=&#8221;skype:username&#8221;&gt;Find Me on Skype!&lt;\/a&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[12,13],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-how-to","tag-skype","tag-url"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.daftlogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/skype-logo.png?fit=300%2C133&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8aov4-L","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daftlogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daftlogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daftlogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daftlogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daftlogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.daftlogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74,"href":"https:\/\/www.daftlogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/74"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daftlogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daftlogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daftlogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daftlogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}