Skype Community > how to add a friend via API?

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Tue Feb 13 2007, 18:09

Hello,

I'm learning API documents and cannot find a way to add a User to Friends List.

When I tried "skype.Friends.Add(user)", nothing was happended.

Can anybody help me?

Thanks beforehand.

Sincerely yours,

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Wed Feb 14 2007, 22:49

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TheUberOverlord

Sun Feb 18 2007, 04:35

Turns out you will need to use the command interface to the API from what I can tell from limited testing:

The SET USER <USERNAME> BUDDYSTATUS 2

If you want to change the text on the add contact request you can also use this command:

SET USER <USERNAME> BUDDYSTATUS 2 <MESSAGE> - add user into contactlist and ask authorization with message.

An Example of how to send an API command via Skype4COM lib can be seen here for C#:

http://forum.skype.com/index.php?s=&sh...st&p=320792

bbil

Wed Feb 20 2008, 21:47

QUOTE(TheUberOverlord @ Sun Feb 18 2007, 04:35) [snapback]361101[/snapback]

Turns out you will need to use the command interface to the API from what I can tell from limited testing:

The SET USER <USERNAME> BUDDYSTATUS 2

If you want to change the text on the add contact request you can also use this command:

SET USER <USERNAME> BUDDYSTATUS 2 <MESSAGE> - add user into contactlist and ask authorization with message.

An Example of how to send an API command via Skype4COM lib can be seen here for C#:

http://forum.skype.com/index.php?s=&sh...st&p=320792

I use this method to add contacts ...
However, some of my friends do not receive the welcome message ..?
How to send it again ..?

merci d'avance.

p-mec

Mon Feb 25 2008, 12:54

In C#:

User usr = skype.get_User(handle);
usr.BuddyStatus = TBuddyStatus.budPendingAuthorization;

where skype is SKYPE4COMLib.Skype

Dr.O

Thu Jun 5 2008, 17:03

Since we have a new event "UserAuthorizationRequestReceived(User pUser)" with skype4com 1.0.29, adding a user to userlist would also be fine for my project.
From Api doku I know only a few user settings are writable

QUOTE

Most user properties are read-only. The following properties are read-write and can be modified with the SET command:

* BUDDYSTATUS
o 1 - delete from buddylist
o 2 - add user into contactlist and ask for authorization: SET USER echo123 BUDDYSTATUS 2 Please authorize me

ISAUTHORIZED

* TRUE - authorize user
* FALSE - dismiss authorization for user
...

CODE

pUser.BuddyStatus = TBuddyStatus.budPendingAuthorization;

will add the requesting user to my userlist.
But this command will NOT authorize the requesting user.
So I send a new api command (because the skype4com command: pUser.IsAuthorized = true seems not to work)

CODE

cmd.Command = "SET USER " + pUser.Handle + " ISAUTHORIZED TRUE";

Now, whats the problem:
When using this two commands at "same time" it would add the user but not authorize the user and sometimes in the other way

Another Problem I found is that the event is fired two times each request!

This is a short demo: (sk is instance of Skype)

CODE

private void sk_UserAuthorizationRequestReceived(User pUser)
        {
            try
            {
                pUser.BuddyStatus = TBuddyStatus.budPendingAuthorization;
                //pUser.IsAuthorized = true;
                cmd = new Command();
                cmd.Id = 323448;
                cmd.Expected = pUser.Handle;
                cmd.Blocking = false;
                cmd.Command = "SET USER " + pUser.Handle + " ISAUTHORIZED TRUE";
                //cmd.Command = "SET USER " + pUser.Handle + " BUDDYSTATUS 2";
                sk.SendCommand(cmd);

                sk.SendMessage(pUser.Handle, ".\n" + "TEST MESSAGE");
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
            }
        }

Short:
Adding + authorize User at same time seems not to work
The message "TEST MESSAGE" is received/sent 2 times

Any Advice?
Thx a lot

TheUberOverlord

Fri Jun 6 2008, 01:54

QUOTE (Dr.O @ Thu Jun 5 2008, 11:03)
Go to the original post

Since we have a new event "UserAuthorizationRequestReceived(User pUser)" with skype4com 1.0.29, adding a user to userlist would also be fine for my project.
From Api doku I know only a few user settings are writable

CODE

pUser.BuddyStatus = TBuddyStatus.budPendingAuthorization;

will add the requesting user to my userlist.
But this command will NOT authorize the requesting user.
So I send a new api command (because the skype4com command: pUser.IsAuthorized = true seems not to work)

CODE

cmd.Command = "SET USER " + pUser.Handle + " ISAUTHORIZED TRUE";

Now, whats the problem:
When using this two commands at "same time" it would add the user but not authorize the user and sometimes in the other way

Another Problem I found is that the event is fired two times each request!

This is a short demo: (sk is instance of Skype)

CODE

private void sk_UserAuthorizationRequestReceived(User pUser)
        {
            try
            {
                pUser.BuddyStatus = TBuddyStatus.budPendingAuthorization;
                //pUser.IsAuthorized = true;
                cmd = new Command();
                cmd.Id = 323448;
                cmd.Expected = pUser.Handle;
                cmd.Blocking = false;
                cmd.Command = "SET USER " + pUser.Handle + " ISAUTHORIZED TRUE";
                //cmd.Command = "SET USER " + pUser.Handle + " BUDDYSTATUS 2";
                sk.SendCommand(cmd);

                sk.SendMessage(pUser.Handle, ".\n" + "TEST MESSAGE");
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
            }
        }

Short:
Adding + authorize User at same time seems not to work
The message "TEST MESSAGE" is received/sent 2 times

Any Advice?
Thx a lot

I am confused as what you are really doing here trying to push two command texts in one command?

Example:

cmd.Command = "SET USER " + pUser.Handle + " ISAUTHORIZED TRUE";
cmd.Command = cmd.Command + "SET USER " + pUser.Handle + " BUDDYSTATUS 2";
sk.SendCommand(cmd);

That will never work. Also, if you are sending these one at a time are you waiting for a REPLY? before sending the other?

There are Hardcoded Groups and grpUsersWaitingMyAuthorization is one of these Hardcoded groups until the user is authorized. So you can access the User collection for that Hardcoded Group, and simply set BuddyStatus to 2 using Skype4COM Lib for a specific user found in that group.

I have an Example showing these groups in an example program, But....it only shows Onine users in the groups ("Because the program is for call transfer, and you can't transfer a call to a user who is offline"), but it would give you an Idea of what I mean. I provide full source code to the project as well at the bottom of the page:

http://share.skype.com/sites/devzone/2007/...nsfer.html#more

Or Click the Picture

So Once you received the notification ("Using Skype4COM") via UserAuthorizationRequestReceived(User pUser)"

1. Loop thru all your groups, find the grpUsersWaitingMyAuthorization Hardwired Group.

2. Loop thru the User Collection of the grpUsersWaitingMyAuthorization Group looking for (User pUser) returned from UserAuthorizationRequestReceived.

3. Set that user.BuddyStatus = TBuddyStatus.budPendingAuthorization.

There is also a Groups.vbs example included in the .chm help file with 1.0.29.0 .Zip for Skype4COM that shows the HardWired Groups as well.

From the Skype4COM.idl included in the .chm help documentation for .1.0.29.0

CODE

typedef enum TGroupType
00406    {
00407       [helpcontext(17),helpstring(hsGroupType_Unknown)] grpUnknown = -1,
00408       [helpcontext(17),helpstring(hsGroupType_Custom)] grpCustomGroup = 0,
00409       [helpcontext(17),helpstring(hsGroupType_AllUsers)] grpAllUsers = 1,
00410       [helpcontext(17),helpstring(hsGroupType_AllFriends)] grpAllFriends = 2,
00411       [helpcontext(17),helpstring(hsGroupType_SkypeFriends)] grpSkypeFriends = 3,
00412       [helpcontext(17),helpstring(hsGroupType_SkypeOutFriends)] grpSkypeOutFriends = 4,
00413       [helpcontext(17),helpstring(hsGroupType_OnlineFriends)] grpOnlineFriends = 5,
00414       [helpcontext(17),helpstring(hsGroupType_PendingAuthFriends)] grpPendingAuthorizationFriends = 6,
00415       [helpcontext(17),helpstring(hsGroupType_RecentContactUsers)] grpRecentlyContactedUsers = 7,
[b]
00416       [helpcontext(17),helpstring(hsGroupType_WaitMyAuthorization)] grpUsersWaitingMyAuthorization = 8,
[b]
00417       [helpcontext(17),helpstring(hsGroupType_AuthorizedByMe)] grpUsersAuthorizedByMe = 9,
00418       [helpcontext(17),helpstring(hsGroupType_BlockedByMe)] grpUsersBlockedByMe = 10,
00419       [helpcontext(17),helpstring(hsGroupType_UngroupedFriends)] grpUngroupedFriends = 11,
00420       [helpcontext(17),helpstring(hsGroupType_SharedGroup)] grpSharedGroup = 12,
00421       [helpcontext(17),helpstring(hsGroupType_ProposedSharedGroup)] grpProposedSharedGroup = 13
00422    } TGroupType;

NOTE: The grpPendingAuthorizationFriends hardwired group is the names of Skype Users that have NOT approved YOU yet ;-)

Dr.O

Fri Jun 6 2008, 07:28

QUOTE

I am confused as what you are really doing here trying to push two command texts in one command?

Of course not

I have forgotten to delete this line out of the demo (at least it was commented out)

Ok now I will have a look to the hardwiredgroups

TheUberOverlord

Fri Jun 6 2008, 08:48

OK. Just wanted to make sure we were talking about the same thing.

Dr.O

Fri Jun 6 2008, 09:18

Found out what it was

First the working code snipped

CODE

GroupCollection gc = sk.HardwiredGroups;

                foreach (Group gp in gc)
                {
                    if (gp.Type == TGroupType.grpUsersWaitingMyAuthorization)
                    {
                        foreach (User user in gp.Users)
                        {
                            if (user.Handle.Equals(pUser.Handle))
                            {
                                user.BuddyStatus = TBuddyStatus.budPendingAuthorization;
                            }
                        }
                    }

After authorize request I checked all user handles from the hardwired group "grpUsersAuthorizedByMe" and I wondered because the requesting user was already authorized! The requesting user just didn't receive the positive authorizing. After a second request the client recognized it and the status image turned green.
After updating the client of requesting user from Skype version 3.6.x to 3.8 all worked fine. So, it seems to be a client version specific behaviour, maybe just a bug of this 3.6.x version I used, but I have tried many code combinations and didn't found a workaround for this 3.6.x version.

TheUberOverlord

Fri Jun 6 2008, 09:43

Not sure if there was a bug in 3.6 or not with this, but glad you see it works.

Dr.O

Fri Jun 6 2008, 09:56

Thanks a lot again for your help.

TheUberOverlord

Fri Jun 6 2008, 10:13

QUOTE (Dr.O @ Fri Jun 6 2008, 03:56)
Go to the original post

Thanks a lot again for your help.

You are very welcome. Glad I could help