matthewking/skypequotecreator

Allow users to create quotes in the Skype clipboard format.

Skype Quote Creator

A simple WinForms app that allows the user to create a new quote in Skype's clipboard format.

Deprecation notice

Please note that this app is no longer actively maintained, and won't work with newer versions of Skype. Skype changed their quote system years ago, and this app does not support their new quote system. I'm no longer an active Skype user so I don't know the details of how the new quote system works. I'd be happy to accept a pull request from any community members who managed to work it out, though.

Get the application

You can download the application from the following sources:

Application	Description
Recommended	ClickOnce installer with automatic updates
Stand-alone	Stand-alone executable

Skype clipboard format

When a Skype quote is copied to the clipboard, the data object looks something like this:

Format	Description
System.String	Plain-text message
Text	Plain-text message
UnicodeText	Plain-text message
OEMText	Plain-text message
SkypeMessageFragment	MemoryStream containing UTF8 Skype message fragment (see below)
Locale	MemoryStream containing Cultural identifier (LCID)

SkypeMessageFragment

A simple XML string in the following format: <quote author="AuthorName" timestamp="Timestamp">MessageText</quote>, where AuthorName is the Skype user name of the message author, MessageText is the message text itself, and Timestamp is the number of seconds since the Unix epoch. The actual fragment from Skype contains a few more attributes, but they can be ignored for the purposes of this simple app!

Copyright

Copyright 2013-2016 Matthew King.

License

Skype Quote Creator is licensed under the MIT License. Refer to license.txt for more information.