jacksenechal / Skype-for-Chrome

Creates Skype callto: links out of phone numbers in the page, so you can click to dial them.

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This plugin will link phone numbers in web pages you visit, so that when you click them a call will be place with Skype, or any other application you configure to respond to a callto: URL.

Installation

1. Clone the git repository
2. Open the Chrome extensions window (Menu -> Tools -> Extensions)
3. Click the + next to "Developer Mode" if it's not already expanded
4. Click "Load unpacked extension...", and choose the extension's directory on your drive

Using The Plugin

This plugin simply turns phone numbers into links like "callto:[phone]". Chrome will then hand that off to the OS to figure out what to do with it. Skype on Windows should register a handler for this type of URL. I'm not sure about Mac.

Linux

In Linux, Chrome uses the xdg-open command to open links like this. Skype doesn't automatically register a URL handler though, so that must be done manually.

1. Download the latest version of action_handler.py by Philipp Kilmann, from http://www.kolmann.at/philipp/linux/skype_action_handler/

2. Place that somewhere on your PATH (/usr/local/bin, for example).

3. Open a terminal and issue the following commands:

   gconftool-2 -s -t string /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/callto/command '/usr/local/bin/action_handler.py "%s"' gconftool-2 -s -t bool /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/callto/enabled true

4. You may need to edit the action_handler.py script to account for the fact that Chrome URL encodes the phone number. So [phone] becomes %2B18005551212. Change the correct lines to look like the following:

   import dbus import sys import re import string import urllib

   ...

   user = "" cmd = "" multiuser = 0 arg1 = urllib.unquote(sys.argv[1]);

   re1 = re.match('^(skype|callto|tel):/?/?([+]?[.\w-]+[;[.\w-]+]?)/?$', arg1); re2 = re.match('^(skype|callto|tel):/?/?([+]?[.\w-]+[;[.\w-]+]?)?(\w+)/?$', arg1); re3 = re.match('^(skype):/?/??(chat)&(blob)=([.\w-]+)/?$', arg1);

You may also be interested in the other scripts that Philipp Kolmann has put together for Skype on Linux. Check them out at http://www.kolmann.at/philipp/linux/.

To Do

• Recognize more phone numbers
  • look at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/123559/a-comprehensive-regex-for-phone-number-validation

Modification

Please do feel free to modify this plugin at will. The basic functionality is in the file contentscript.js. It is very simple at the moment. If you make additions that you would like to see included, just send me a Github pull request.