There are two methods to programmatically use Skype:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first method is rather slow due to an interaction with the user interface. The second one is more interesting as there is no UI application.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SkypeKit SDK includes only wrappers for:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Is Ruby wrapper missed? No more!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Before releasing gem, we tried several approaches. We tried to implement SkypeKit in pure Ruby as it done in SkypeKit Python Wrapper. But then, we realized that even if we make do it, its implementation will not be as fast as it should be. Then, we started to write a C extension for Ruby using the SkypeKit C++ Wrapper. But then, we admitted that this implementation will be inefficient due to asynchronous SkypeKit API and pure Ruby thread. Finally, we came to the implementation via Ruby FFI. We think that it’s the best way to do it because:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Libskypekit<\/a> is a simple C library that brings asynchronous<\/strong> SkypeKit C++ wrapper functionality to the usual synchronous<\/strong> C applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The goal of Libskypekit is to catch all asynchronous callbacks of SkypeKit C++ SDK and push them as events into a simple queue. Then synchronous application can pull this queue, retrieve each event and process it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Libskypekit is rather a young library, but we have already implemented the next basic events:<\/p>\n\n\n\n It’s enough to write simple chat applications. If your are familiar with C language look at Is Ruby wrapper still missed? No more! :)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thus LibskypeKit has a simple API, it’s was relatively easy to create a Ruby library using Ruby FFI<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Plus the Skypekit Ruby library<\/a> provides a simple interface. For example, look at ping_pong<\/em> example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n In order to play with SkypeKit gem you need:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now you can play with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Libskypekit and Skypekit gem are both released under the MIT license<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But SkypeKit SDK is not!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Please carefully<\/em> read SkypeKit License Agreement<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are a lot of restrictions!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Preface There are two methods to programmatically use Skype: Via the native desktop Skype application using Skype Desktop APIVia SkypeKit Runtime using SkypeKit SDK wrapper. The first method is rather slow due to an interaction with the user interface. The second one is more interesting as there is no UI application. SkypeKit SDK includes only…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":2024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":["Andriy Yanko"],"class_list":["post-2023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-development"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"categories_data":[{"name":"Engineering","link":"https:\/\/railsware.com\/blog?category=development"}],"post_thumbnails":"https:\/\/railsware.com\/blog\/wp-content\/themes\/railsware\/vendors\/images\/article-thumbnail-default.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/railsware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/railsware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/railsware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/railsware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/railsware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2023"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/railsware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14142,"href":"https:\/\/railsware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions\/14142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/railsware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/railsware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/railsware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/railsware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2023"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/railsware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
ping_pong example<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nSkypekit Ruby gem<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
require \"skypekit\"\n\n$skype = Skypekit::Skype.new(:keyfile => 'myskypekit.pem')\n\n$skype.start\n$skype.login('myskypename', 'mypassword')\n\ndef terminate\n puts \"Terminating\"\n $skype.stop\n exit\nend\n\ntrap('INT') do\n terminate\nend\n\nloop do\n event = $skype.get_event\n\n unless event\n sleep 5\n next\n end\n\n case event.type\n when :account_status\n\n if event.data.logged_in?\n puts \"Congrats! We are Logged in!\"\n end\n\n if event.data.logged_out?\n puts \"Authentication failed: #{event.data.reason}\"\n terminate\n end\n\n when :chat_message\n message = event.data\n\n puts \"@\" * 80\n p message\n puts \"@\" * 80\n\n if message.body == \"ping\"\n $skype.send_chat_message(message.convo_id, \"pong\")\n end\n\n end\nend\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\nI want try it<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Legal part<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
References<\/h2>\n\n\n\n