{"id":77,"date":"2008-05-29T11:02:11","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T10:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/eocanha\/?p=77"},"modified":"2015-11-08T00:21:06","modified_gmt":"2015-11-07T23:21:06","slug":"how-to-send-sms-in-linux-using-skype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eocanha.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/29\/how-to-send-sms-in-linux-using-skype\/","title":{"rendered":"How to send SMS in Linux using Skype"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Skype for Linux doesn&#8217;t support SMS sending from the user interface. But that functionality is in fact implemented in the library and external apps can use it via the public API. I&#8217;ve found a working example of that nice feature. Just do these simple steps:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.skype.com\/wiki\/Skype4Py\">Download Skype4Py from here<\/a>, uncompress it and install it typing <code>sudo python setup.py install<\/code><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oberle.org\/skype_linux_tools\/\">Download Skype tools 0.11 from here<\/a> and uncompress it<\/li>\n<li>Open your Skype client and prepare for the authorization dialog that will appear when you execute the next step<\/li>\n<li>Enter into the previous directory and send the SMS: <code>.\/send_sms.py +34123123456 My test sms<\/code><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If the message takes too much to be sent, stop the app (CTRL+C), delete the authorization using the Skype options dialog, and try again. Third and next times worked fine for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skype for Linux doesn&#8217;t support SMS sending from the user interface. But that functionality is in fact implemented in the library and external apps can use it via the public API. I&#8217;ve found a working example of that nice feature. Just do these simple steps: Download Skype4Py from here, uncompress it and install it typing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/eocanha.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/29\/how-to-send-sms-in-linux-using-skype\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to send SMS in Linux using Skype<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eocanha.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eocanha.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eocanha.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eocanha.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eocanha.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eocanha.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426,"href":"https:\/\/eocanha.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eocanha.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eocanha.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eocanha.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}