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Ian Boggs
Ian Boggs

Reputation: 542

Getting Skype Identity In Bot Framework?

I have successfully written a simple bot application have it communicating within Skype.

I've tried to personalise a welcome message to a user when they say 'Hello'. However I can't seem to get their Skype display name or email from the 'From' ChannelAccount field. The name and address have strange values. For example for one user they return something in the format '8:skypename' and for another user they return '4:564:differentskypename'. The values are consistent for a specific user, but the format is different.

Does anyone know if you can get at the user's basic Skype information directly? Or do you need separate calls in order to get it?

Thanks in advance

Upvotes: 2

Views: 783

Answers (2)

Nick
Nick

Reputation: 61

Skype bots receive a unique user identity such as 29:2hJJkjmGn4ljB2X7YYEju-sgFwgvnISvE6G3abGde8ts - which is different to a user's Skype ID (referred as handle above). Each message also contains the user's display name which should be used for.

e.g.

"from": {
"id": "29:2hJJkjmGn4ljB2X7YYEju-sgFwgvnISvE6G3abGde8ts",
"name": "Display Name"
}

Upvotes: 0

Lars
Lars

Reputation: 10092

There is currently no support for getting a user's Skype information (other than their Skype handle). For the handle, simply strip of the prefix (i.e. "8:"). (These prefixes are are the ones returned by the Skype api).

Upvotes: 1

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