How to convert Skype tags and symbols to smiles?

[mihalt]

Hi! Only would like to ask you, how would you resolve this problem? I want to see smiles in my str output in admin pannel. Not only tags, that contain them. Maybe is separate library of smiles exist, that skype only is using by itself?

[Terrance]

If you mean resolving markup like (sad) into the corresponding emoticons, you probably want to take a look at SkypeUtils.static -- this is a dict of metadata about the emoticons that Skype provides. For example:

>>> tag = "(sad)"
>>> for item in SkypeUtils.static["items"]:
...   if tag in item["shortcuts"]:
...     print(item)
...
{'description': 'Sad',
 'etag': 'e34deb20-f8f5-4b53-ab00-468ccacfac69',
 'facebook': {'shortcuts': [':(']},
 'id': 'sad',
 'keywords': [],
 'media': {'default': {'firstFrame': 17, 'fps': 24, 'framesCount': 63}},
 'shortcuts': [':(', ':-(', ':=(', '(sad)', '(Sad)', ':<', ':-<', ':(', ':-(', ':=(', '(sad)', '(Sad)', ':<', ':-<'],
 'type': 'emoticon',
 'useInSms': True,
 'visible': True}

For the actual image, the current Skype for Web seems to use URLs of the form:

https://static-asm.secure.skypeassets.com/pes/v1/emoticons/<id>/views/default_<size>_f

id comes from the item metadata above, and size is one of a handful of recognised numbers, up to 100.

Here is sad at size 20:

[mihalt]

If you mean resolving markup like (sad) into the corresponding emoticons, you probably want to take a look at SkypeUtils.static -- this is a dict of metadata about the emoticons that Skype provides. For example:

>>> tag = "(sad)"
>>> for item in SkypeUtils.static["items"]:
...   if tag in item["shortcuts"]:
...     print(item)
...
{'description': 'Sad',
 'etag': 'e34deb20-f8f5-4b53-ab00-468ccacfac69',
 'facebook': {'shortcuts': [':(']},
 'id': 'sad',
 'keywords': [],
 'media': {'default': {'firstFrame': 17, 'fps': 24, 'framesCount': 63}},
 'shortcuts': [':(', ':-(', ':=(', '(sad)', '(Sad)', ':<', ':-<', ':(', ':-(', ':=(', '(sad)', '(Sad)', ':<', ':-<'],
 'type': 'emoticon',
 'useInSms': True,
 'visible': True}

For the actual image, the current Skype for Web seems to use URLs of the form:

https://static-asm.secure.skypeassets.com/pes/v1/emoticons/<id>/views/default_<size>_f

id comes from the item metadata above, and size is one of a handful of recognised numbers, up to 100.

Here is sad at size 20:

oh, you are my god! Thank you very much! Very wait when you will resolve v2 skype api problems with current enhancement . There are a lot of useful functionality in them. Maybe do you need any help?

[mihalt]

@Terrance I just found, that not all emotion are in SkypeUtils.static["items"]. For example this shortcut (1f380_ribbon). Do you know the link, how I can get id of emotion by it's shortcut?

[Terrance]

That appears to be a Unicode emoji -- I guess Skype has aliases for those now too?

If it's not in the emoticon data, you could at least decode the character codepoint to the literal emoji:

>>> chr(int('1f380', 16))
'🎀'

[mihalt]

hmm, ok. So, should I find by pattern like re.findall('(.*?)_(.*?)) → [(literal emoji), (skype_key)]? Or how should it look like?

[mihalt]

@Terrance maybe you should know, that this ids from SkypeUtils.static["items"] should be changed for correct getting of image by link, that you game me https://static-asm.secure.skypeassets.com/pes/v1/emoticons/<id>/views/default_<size>_f

EMOTION_KEY_MATCH = {
    'eg': 'evilgrin',
    'bertlett': 'bartlett',
    'mlt': 'malthe',
    'taur': 'tauri'
}

Another are fine.

And second maybe that you should know that id='movember' contains shortcut (mo) that is duplicated with id='cash'. Another shortcuts in another ids are fine

And third — the same key can contain in conversations different shortcuts. For example, when New Year holidays are comming, id=party contains shortcut in messages (festiveparty). In standard days id=party shortcut is (party) and id=festiveparty is (festiveparty) separately.

[Terrance]

If Skype is returning bad data here then I don't intend to patch or second-guess it -- the emoticon data is provided as-is. Ditto if the clients vary the meaning of shortcuts based on time of year.

SkPy's only use of it is through the SkypeMsg.emote helper that looks up a shortcut, so if there's multiple emoticons sharing a shortcut then you'll get the first match. If you need more control when sending then you can construct the <ss> tag yourself.