Send a message in skype chat using python

Skype bot can send a message using the REST API :

POST /v2/conversations/8:alice/activities HTTP/1.1 Host: apis.skype.com Authorization: Bearer <redacted oauth2 token> { "message": {"content" : "Hi! (wave)"} } 

for example, to send a message skypeid user on Python:

 #!/usr/bin/env python2 import json from urllib2 import urlopen, Request def send_message(message, skypeid, token, host='apis.skype.com'): url = 'https://{host}/v2/conversations/8:{skypeid}/activities'.format(**vars()) headers = dict(Authorization='Bearer ' + token) data = json.dumps(dict(message=dict(content=message))).encode() urlopen(Request(url, data, headers)).close() 

where token can be obtained using another http POST request:

 from urllib import urlencode def get_access_token(client_id, client_secret): # from messaging/auth-service.js in skype-sdk # NOTE: unlike the documented way in /skype/bots/docs/; # this approach works for me url = 'https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/v2.0/token' data = urlencode(dict(client_id=client_id, scope='https://graph.microsoft.com/.default', grant_type='client_credentials', client_secret=client_secret)).encode() return json.loads(urlopen(url, data).read().decode())['access_token'] 

access_token can be cached expires_in seconds.

To get client_id , client_secret you need to register the application with your microsoft account and create a password .

Then the Skype bot itself must also be registered to get a link by which you can add the bot to Skype contacts (before publishing the bot, you can find it by this link).

To receive response messages you need to specify when creating a Skype bot https webhook. For the test, you can ngrok http 8000 , which prints the url, which you can specify as a public webhook. At the same time, the http (not https) server is locally sufficient to start, which json can receive on the specified port 8000, for example:

 #!/usr/bin/env python3 from aiohttp import web # $ pip install aiohttp async def handle(request): messages = await request.json() for message in messages: print(message) return web.HTTPCreated() # 201 app = web.Application() app.router.add_route('POST', '/v1/chat', handle) web.run_app(app, host='localhost', port=8000, ssl_context=None) 

In the subject article on Habrahabr: How to create your own bot for Skype. What is not written in the documentation .