How to start a Skype chat – not a call – with a link

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elon picture elon · May 15, 2010 · Viewed 99k times · Source

You can put skype:username into the href attribute of a link and it works, but it begins a call, but I want to create a link to begin a chat (a text conversation). I know that skype: is a type of protocol, but don’t know how to create this link.

Answer

Anton picture Anton · May 15, 2010

Have you tried <a href="skype:-skype-name-?chat">Start chat</a> ?

Allowed query parameters:

  • chat - start a chat
  • call - start a call
  • add - add person to the contacts
  • userinfo - view user's profile
  • voicemail - leave a voice message
  • sendfile - send a file

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