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I would like to send a message to group chat from the Windows command line. I know the chat name from skype, lets say it is 'TestChat'.

What is the easiest way to do that?

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  • The closest thing I could find is a python API Skype4Py, but that would require you to install python and write the script yourself.
    – John
    Aug 25, 2011 at 11:08
  • This is an awesome question. I would definitely like to know how to do this from a *NIX terminal too!
    – kalaracey
    Aug 25, 2011 at 14:59

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Similar to the Skype4Py comment, I would recommend Skype4COM. You'd still need to write the script yourself but there are some examples out there already that show similar things. It's also officially supported by Skype.

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MsgToSkype.exe is a command-line program (22k) that can send messages to another Skype clients using the locally installed & configured Skype client. It uses the Skype4Com API mentioned by Matthew Steeples, but relieves you from dealing with COM.

It cannot send message to a group chat (as described at the above-mentioned page) "due to limitation of the Skype4Com component. To achieve the same goal it is possible to use the Category concept of the Skype interface. A Category allows to define a set of users and MsgToSkype can use this Category and browse it to send Instant Message sequentially to all users located in this one."

However, currently I suspect that this Skype4Com API is obsolete and will cease to work in the near future. But I cannot tell it for sure because it's unclear (for me) how Skype4Com is related to the Skype Desktop API, from which message sending capability is going to be removed.

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