Update Skype Mood Text From Twitter

Skype Mood Text Example

A couple of people pinged me about the frequency of my Skype mood text updates. No, I’m not constantly updating this text by hand. Instead I wrote a script in JScript, using Windows Scripting Host. The script uses the Web API of Twitter and the Com API of Skype.

Here is the script:Jscript, updating skype mood text from twitter.

I’ve gone a bit overboard with error handling, but I was testing around quite a bit ;) The script will only update the Skype mood text from Twitter. It will not create a tweet from the Skype mood text.

In order to start the script, you have to create Windows shortcut to:

C:\Windows\System32\cscript.exe //nologo "[PATH_TO_JS_FILE]"

Example Window Setting for Skype-Twitter Integration

After creating the shortcut, you can select the link properties and change the layout for the window that will open. I entered a width of 80, height of 20, and a font size of 10. That will give you the window you can see here.

You can also assign your own icon to make it look pretty in the task bar (no, the application will not minimize into the notification area). I’m using this icon.

BTW: The script requires the Skype COM object installed. Usually this will be the case. If not, Google it. The script will also try and connect to the Skype API (of course!), so you need to tell Skype that this is OK, the dialog is sometimes a pop-under :(. Sometimes the script also does not connect for whatever reason. Usually it works on the second try… Yes, it’s buggy. I wish there would be a Skype Web API that interacts with the Skype Desktop Client…

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