For full instructions on how to build this code sample from scratch, look at Quickstart: Add Chat to your App

• An Azure account with an active subscription. Create an account for free.
• Install Python 3.7 or above.
• Create an Azure Communication Services resource. For details, see Quickstart: Create and manage Communication Services resources. You'll need to record your resource endpoint for this quickstart.
• A user access token. Be sure to set the scope to chat, and note the token string as well as the userId string.

• ./add-chat/start-chat.py: contains code for chat.

pip install azure-communication-chat

pip install azure-communication-identity

1. Open an instance of PowerShell, Windows Terminal, Command Prompt or equivalent and navigate to the directory that you'd like to clone the sample to.
2. git clone https://github.com/Azure-Samples/communication-services-python-quickstarts.git
3. With the Communication Services procured in pre-requisites, add endpoint to start-chat.py file at line no:11 endpoint = "https://<RESOURCE_NAME>.communication.azure.com".
4. With the access token procured in pre-requisites, add it to the start-chat.py file. Assign token at line no:12 chat_client = ChatClient(endpoint, CommunicationTokenCredential("<Access Token>")).
5. With the Communication Services procured in pre-requisites, add connection string to start-chat.py file at line no:58 identity_client = CommunicationIdentityClient.from_connection_string('<connection_string>').

From a console prompt, navigate to the directory containing the start-chat.py file, then execute the following command to run the app.

python ./start-chat.py