Desktop API Reference Index

• Purpose of this guide
• Who reads this guide?
• What is in this guide?
• More information
• Legal information
• Text notation
• Overview of the Skype API
  • Communication Layer
  • Protocol Layer
  • Wrappers
• Skype API on Windows
• Skype API on Linux
  • Supported distributions
  • Transport
    • X11 messaging
    • D-BUS messaging
  • Using the Skype API for Linux
    • D-BUS usage
  • Protocol 7 commands currently missing from Linux version
• Skype API on Mac
  • Cocoa
    • SkypeAPI class
      • Class methods
      • Delegate methods
    • Guidelines
  • Carbon
    • Description
    • Skype API methods
    • Guidelines
  • AppleScript
    • Examples
• Skype protocol
  • Protocol 8
  • Protocol 7
  • Protocol 6
  • Protocol 5
  • Protocol 4
  • Protocol 3
  • Protocol 2
  • Protocol 1 and 2 compatibility
• Skype API reference
  • Terminology
  • Commands
    • Command identifiers
    • Making and managing voice calls
      • CALL
      • GET CALL
      • SET CALL INPROGRESS
      • SET CALL FINISHED
      • SET CALL ONHOLD
      • SET CALL JOIN CONFERENCE
      • SET CALL DTMF
      • SET CALL SEEN
      • ALTER CALL
      • GET CALL CAN_TRANSFER
      • ALTER CALL TRANSFER
      • Call failure reasons
    • Sending and managing SMS messages
      • CREATE SMS
      • SET SMS BODY
      • ALTER SMS SEND
      • SET SMS SEEN
      • Creating an SMS message
      • SMS message text in chunks
      • Searching SMS messages
      • Deleting SMS messages
      • SET SMS REPLY_TO_NUMBER
      • SET SMS TARGET_NUMBERS
      • Setting mobile phone number on reply-to field in outgoing SMS messages
    • Call cost information
    • Making and managing video calls
      • GET VIDEO_IN
      • SET VIDEO_IN
      • GET CALL VIDEO_STATUS
      • ALTER CALL VIDEO_SEND
      • ALTER CALL VIDEO_RECEIVE
      • GET CALL VIDEO_SEND_STATUS
      • GET CALL VIDEO_RECEIVE_STATUS
      • IS_VIDEO_CAPABLE
      • OPEN VIDEOTEST
      • OPEN OPTIONS VIDEO
    • Leaving and manipulating voicemails
      • VOICEMAIL
      • CALLVOICEMAIL
      • OPEN VOICEMAIL
      • ALTER VOICEMAIL
    • Managing call forwarding
      • GET PROFILE CALL_APPLY_CF
      • SET PROFILE CALL_APPLY_CF
      • GET PROFILE CALL_FORWARD_RULES
      • SET PROFILE CALL_FORWARD_RULES
      • GET PROFILE CALL_NOANSWER_TIMEOUT
      • SET PROFILE CALL_NOANSWER_TIMEOUT
      • GET PROFILE CALL_SEND_TO_VM
      • SET PROFILE CALL_SEND_TO_VM
    • Creating chats and sending messages
      • CHAT CREATE
      • CHATMESSAGE
      • ALTER CHAT SETTOPIC
      • ALTER CHAT SETTOPICXML
      • ALTER CHAT ADDMEMBERS
      • ALTER CHAT LEAVE
      • ALTER CHAT BOOKMARKED
      • GET CHAT CHATMESSAGES
      • GET CHAT RECENTCHATMESSAGES
      • SET CHATMESSAGE SEEN
      • SET CHATMESSAGE BODY
      • SET MESSAGE SEEN – obsolete
      • MESSAGE – obsolete
      • GET CHAT MEMBEROBJECTS
      • GET CHATMEMBER
      • ALTER CHAT JOIN
      • ALTER CHAT CLEARRECENTMESSAGES
      • ALTER CHAT SETALERTSTRING
      • ALTER CHAT ACCEPTADD
      • ALTER CHAT DISBAND
    • Public Chats
      • CHAT ROLES and PRIVILEGES
      • ALTER CHAT SETPASSWORD
      • ALTER CHAT ENTERPASSWORD
      • ALTER CHAT SETOPTIONS
      • ALTER CHATMEMBER SETROLETO
      • ALTER CHATMEMBER CANSETROLETO
      • ALTER CHAT KICK
      • ALTER CHAT KICKBAN
      • ALTER CHAT FINDUSINGBLOB
      • ALTER CHAT CREATEUSINGBLOB
      • ALTER CHAT SETGUIDELINES
    • Managing contacts and groups
      • GET GROUP USERS
      • GET GROUP VISIBLE
      • GET GROUP EXPANDED
      • GET GROUP DISPLAYNAME
      • SET GROUP DISPLAYNAME
      • GET GROUP TYPE
      • CREATE GROUP
      • DELETE GROUP
      • ALTER GROUP ADDUSER
      • ALTER GROUP REMOVEUSER
      • Sharing contact groups
      • SET USER DISPLAYNAME
    • Search commands
      • SEARCH FRIENDS
      • SEARCH USERS
      • SEARCH CALLS
      • SEARCH ACTIVECALLS
      • SEARCH MISSEDCALLS
      • SEARCH SMSS
      • SEARCH MISSEDSMSS
      • SEARCH VOICEMAILS
      • SEARCH MISSEDVOICEMAILS
      • SEARCH MESSAGES
      • SEARCH MISSEDMESSAGES
      • SEARCH CHATS
      • SEARCH ACTIVECHATS
      • SEARCH MISSEDCHATS
      • SEARCH RECENTCHATS
      • SEARCH BOOKMARKEDCHATS
      • SEARCH CHATMESSAGES
      • SEARCH MISSEDCHATMESSAGES
      • SEARCH USERSWAITINGMYAUTHORIZATION
      • SEARCH GROUPS
      • SEARCH FILETRANSFERS
      • SEARCH ACTIVEFILETRANSFERS
    • Managing history
      • CLEAR CHATHISTORY
      • CLEAR VOICEMAILHISTORY
      • CLEAR CALLHISTORY
    • Controlling Skype user interface
      • FOCUS
      • MINIMIZE
      • GET WINDOWSTATE
      • SET WINDOWSTATE
      • OPEN ADDAFRIEND
      • OPEN IM
      • OPEN CHAT
      • OPEN FILETRANSFER
      • OPEN LIVETAB
      • OPEN VIDEOTEST
      • OPEN VOICEMAIL
      • OPEN PROFILE
      • OPEN USERINFO
      • OPEN CONFERENCE
      • OPEN SEARCH
      • OPEN OPTIONS
      • OPEN CALLHISTORY
      • OPEN CONTACTS
      • OPEN DIALPAD
      • OPEN SENDCONTACTS
      • OPEN BLOCKEDUSERS
      • OPEN IMPORTCONTACTS
      • OPEN GETTINGSTARTED
      • OPEN AUTHORIZATION
      • BTN_PRESSED and BTN_RELEASED
      • GET CONTACTS FOCUSED
      • GET/SET UI_LANGUAGE
      • GET/SET WALLPAPERS
      • SILENT_MODE
    • Custom Menus and Events
      • Custom Menu Items
        • CREATE MENU_ITEM
        • DELETE MENU_ITEM
        • SET MENU_ITEM
        • MENU_ITEM click event
      • Skype Alert Events
    • Application to application commands
      • AP2AP CREATE
      • AP2AP CONNECT
      • AP2AP WRITE
      • AP2AP DATAGRAM
      • AP2AP READ
      • AP2AP DISCONNECT
      • AP2AP DELETE
      • Application to application example
    • Voice Streams
      • ALTER CALL SET_INPUT
      • ALTER CALL SET_OUTPUT
      • ALTER CALL SET_CAPTURE_MIC
      • ALTER VOICEMAIL SET_INPUT
      • ALTER VOICEMAIL SET_OUTPUT
      • ALTER VOICEMAIL SET_CAPTURE_MIC
    • Testing connections
  • Objects
    • USER object
    • PROFILE object
    • CALL object
    • MESSAGE object
    • CHAT object
    • CHATMEMBER object
    • CHATMESSAGE object
    • VOICEMAIL object
    • SMS object
    • APPLICATION object
    • GROUP object
    • FILETRANSFER object
  • Managing object properties
    • GET USER
    • SET USER
    • GET CALL
    • GET CHAT
    • GET CHATMESSAGE
    • GET MESSAGE
    • GET APPLICATION
  • Managing general parameters
    • GET SKYPEVERSION
    • GET CURRENT USER
    • GET USERSTATUS
    • GET PRIVILEGE
    • GET PROFILE
    • GET PREDICTIVE DIALER COUNTRY
    • SET PROFILE MOOD_TEXT
    • SET PROFILE RICH_MOOD_TEXT
    • GET USER RICH_MOOD_TEXT
    • GET CONNSTATUS (connection)
    • AUDIO_IN
    • AUDIO_OUT
    • RINGER
    • MUTE
    • SET AVATAR
    • GET AVATAR
    • GET USER AVATAR
    • RINGTONE
    • GET RINGTONE STATUS
    • SET RINGTONE STATUS
    • GET VIDEO_IN
    • SET PCSPEAKER
    • SET AGC and SET AEC
    • RESETIDLETIMER
    • GET AUTOAWAY
    • SET AUTOAWAY
  • Notifications
    • Object notifications
      • Call notifications
      • User notifications
      • Chat notifications
      • Chatmessage notifications
      • Voicemail notifications
      • Application notifications
    • Status notifications
      • Callhistory change notification
      • Instant message history change
      • Contactlist change notification
      • Contact group change notification
      • User status notification
      • Connection status
      • Current user handle
      • Contact list focus nofication
  • Error codes
• Skype URI handler
• Release Notes
  • Skype 4.0 GOLD Release Notes
  • Skype 3.6. Release Notes
  • Skype 3.5.0.202 Release Notes
  • Skype 3.5 Release Notes
  • Skype 3.2 Release Notes
  • Skype 3.1 Release Notes
  • Skype 3.0 Release Notes
  • Skype 2.6 Release notes
  • Skype 1.4 Release Notes
  • Skype 1.3.0.42 release notes
  • Skype 1.2.0.11 release notes
  • Skype 1.1.0.61 release notes
  • Skype 1.0.0.94 release notes