Skype4Py Check If Group Chat

Question

is there a way to check if a chat is a group chat? Or at least to find out how many users there are in a group.

Like by checking for the user number, if it is 2, then it is obviously 1-1 (Single), but if it as anything else, it would be a group chat.

http://skype4py.sourceforge.net/doc/html/ – Andrew Wong Feb 24 '13 at 08:05 — Andrew Wong, Feb 24 '13 at 08:05

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 24 '13 at 13:18

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The Type property of the chat object will be either chatTypeDialog or chatTypeMultiChat with the latter being a group chat. You can safely ignore the other legacy enumeration values.

answered Feb 24 '13 at 13:18

Claus Jørgensen

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Sorry for not being good at python, but how would I go on to checking this? – Andrew Wong Feb 26 '13 at 07:01
If you can't figure out how to check the value of a simple property, I'll recommend you read a Python 101 beginners tutorial. – Claus Jørgensen Feb 26 '13 at 07:24
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Well I tried if Message.Chat.Type == Skype4Py.chatTypeMultiChat but the code hangs and never runs – Andrew Wong Feb 27 '13 at 07:56
confirmed: `message.Chat.Type` always hangs and eventually the connection to Skype is lost – hansaplast Mar 10 '14 at 12:35

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:00

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This is a slight modification of a code that I wrote for another question here. The following code checks if there are any Group chats in either the open chats or the bookmarked chats. You should pass in a topic to find a chat of that topic.

def checkGroupChat(topic=""):
    """
    Checks if a group exists.
    """
    import Skype4Py as skype
    skypeClient = skype.Skype()
    skypeClient.Attach()
    for elem in skypeClient.ActiveChats:  # Looks in active chats and returns True if chat is found.
        if len(elem.Members) > 2 and elem.Topic == topic:
            return True

    for chat in skypeClient.BookmarkedChats: # Looks in Bookmarked Chats.
        if chat.Topic == topic:
            return True

    return False

edited May 23 '17 at 12:00

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answered Jun 23 '13 at 06:28

Sukrit Kalra

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How about to check for the current chat, or the chat that a message was sent from – Andrew Wong Jun 24 '13 at 13:16
Hi! The `skypeClient.ActiveChats` part takes care of that, if you have a message and want to identify the chat from that, then, you can do minor modifications to the above code. – Sukrit Kalra Jun 26 '13 at 13:13
Ok then how would I modify it? – Andrew Wong Jun 27 '13 at 22:32
Can you tell me what you can use to uniquely identify a chat? – Sukrit Kalra Jun 28 '13 at 05:09
Chat blob? Title? Latest Message? – Andrew Wong Jun 29 '13 at 06:01
I want it to be able to check if it is an admin in a group chat and then carry commands from there – Andrew Wong Jun 29 '13 at 06:02
You want to go through all of the Active / Bookmarked Group chats and see which one of those has an admin and then carry out your commands, am I right? – Sukrit Kalra Jun 30 '13 at 04:34
When you say 'which one of those has an admin', what do you mean? If you mean send command /get role in each chat group and if it is MASTER, etc, carry out a command, then yes. Otherwise.. ????? Maybe I could use a chat blob to check – Andrew Wong Jul 01 '13 at 09:57

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 10 '14 at 12:35

This worked for me:

def on_message(message, status):
    len(message.Chat.Members) > 2:
        # this is a private chat

s = Skype4Py.Skype()
s.OnMessageStatus = on_message
s.Attach()

message.Chat.Type always hanged for me and then after some seconds the connection to Skype is lost. Seems to be a bug

Skype4Py Check If Group Chat

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