call a number using skype in a webpage

Question

I am trying to add a link or button to the webpage so that the user can call a number directly if the skype is installed. it seems the link is like

skyp:....?call....

but cannot find any sample or documents. thanks for your help.

Answer 1

This link has info you might be able to use.

Answer 2

Is this any use to you?

http://www.ehow.com/how_2008799_use-skype-links.html

Answer 3

If Skype and its web toolbar is installed it automatically detects phone numbers in web pages and adds a menu to near the phone number. So I dont think you should do anything do enable it in your web page.

Answer 4

Skype is a client program. You may have two options: Write an url handler that calls Skype and use that url. Somewhat like my-skype://.

There's a plugin (at least for IE) too. You would need to make sure, your numbers are recognizable (in the correct format).

Answer 5

Skype has a description of their URIs on their developer site:

https://developer.skype.com/Docs/ApiDoc/Skype_URI_handler

How well these work is entirely up to your browser and OS.

Answer 6

This is the format for the link:

<a href="skype:echo123?call">Click</a> (make a call to echo123)

It will work provided the visitor have Skype installed.

You can find all the options and an alternative javascript to redirect the user to download skype is he/she does not have Skype installed.

http://www.skype.com/share/buttons/advanced.html