@broid/skype NPM

Broid Skype Integration

Broid Integrations is an open source project providing a suite of Activity Streams 2 libraries for unified communications among a vast number of communication platforms.

Connect your App to Multiple Messaging Channels with One OpenSource Language.

Message types supported

Simple	Image	Video	Buttons	Location	Phone number
✅	✅	✅	✅

Location, Phone number are platform limitations.

Getting started

Install

npm install --save @broid/skype

Connect to Skype

const BroidSkype = require('@broid/skype');

const skype = new BroidSkype({
  token: 'xxxxx',
  tokenSecret: 'xxxxxx',
  http: {
    host: '127.0.0.1',
    port: 8080
  }
});

skype.connect()
  .subscribe({
    next: data => console.log(data),
    error: err => console.error(`Something went wrong: ${err.message}`),
    complete: () => console.log('complete'),
  });

Skype can also be used with your existing express setup.

const BroidSkype = require('broid-skype');
const express = require("express");

const skype  = new BroidSkype({
  token: 'xxxxx',
  tokenSecret: 'xxxxxx',
});

const app = express();
app.use("/skype", skype.getRouter());

skype.connect()
  .subscribe({
    next: data => console.log(data),
    error: err => console.error(`Something went wrong: ${err.message}`),
    complete: () => console.log('complete'),
  });

app.listen(8080);

Options available

name	Type	default	Description
token	string
token_secret	string
service_id	string	random	Arbitrary identifier of the running instance
log_level	string	`debug`	Can be : `fatal`, `error`, `warn`, `info`, `debug`, `trace`
http	object		HTTP options (`host`, `port`)

Receive a message

skype.listen()
  .subscribe({
    next: data => console.log(`Received message: ${data}`),
    error: err => console.error(`Something went wrong: ${err.message}`),
    complete: () => console.log('complete'),
  });

Buttons supported

mediaType	Action types	Content of value property
text/html	open-url	URL to be opened in the built-in browser.
audio/telephone-event	call	Destination for a call in following format: "tel:123123123123".
	imBack	Text of message which client will sent back as ordinary chat message.

Post a message

To send a message, the format should use the broid-schemas.

const formatted_message = {
  "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
  "type": "Create",
  "generator": {
    "id": "f6e92eb6-f69e-4eae-8158-06613461cf3a",
    "type": "Service",
    "name": "skype"
  },
  "object": {
    "type": "Note",
    "content": "hello world",
    "context": {
      "type": "Object",
      "name": "address_id",
      "content": "xxxxxxx#29:xxxxxxxxxxxx#skype#28:xxxxxxxxxxxx"
    }
  },
  "to": {
    "type": "Person",
    "id": "2932680234"
  }
};

skype.send(formatted_message)
  .then(() => console.log("ok"))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));