Can I have notifications/alerts sent by IM to a Skype account from a headless machine?

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I want to make my network monitoring system send IM alerts, and the IM client of choice at my workplace is Skype.

Is there a command-line driven API, that doesn't require the GUI Skype client, so I can run it on the Linux machines that run my monitoring?

Alternatively, is there a Jabber-to-Skype gateway that would solve this problem?

damir · Answer 1 · 2010-08-11 13:59:33Z

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	This calls the GUI Skype client, so doesn't fit the requirements. Thanks for the suggestion though and welcome to ServerFault. – crb Aug 12 '10 at 12:59
	@crb: If your only objection to the GUI client is that it requires a GUI, run it on a headless X server such as `Xvfb` or `Xvnc`. – Gilles Aug 12 '10 at 13:36
	I object more to the fact I need to have Qt and X on a tiny machine, vs. an open protocol like Jabber where this would be trivial :) I was under the impression that Skype had been reverse engineered, just a little. – crb Aug 12 '10 at 20:22

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crb · Answer 2 · 2012-05-01 14:56:43Z

According to common wisdom, including this SuperUser post, Skype has not been reverse engineered, and they do not offer a command-line only client.

There are a number of options for controlling a GUI client from the command line, including Skype4py and skype-command-line (Java).

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