How to start a Skype chat – not a call – with a link

Question

You can put skype:username into the href attribute of a link and it works, but it begins a call, but I want to create a link to begin a chat (a text conversation). I know that skype: is a type of protocol, but don’t know how to create this link.

Answer 1

Have you tried <a href="skype:-skype-name-?chat">Start chat</a> ?

Allowed query parameters:

• chat - start a chat
• call - start a call
• add - add person to the contacts
• userinfo - view user's profile
• voicemail - leave a voice message
• sendfile - send a file