Automatically set office hours availability status by scraping skype or gchat status

[ezl]

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1580068
The optimum MVP for me would just be a website that displays a list of HN users who are currently online in Skype along with a link to their HN profile. I don't even have to change any behavior to become "available" or not on your service.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1579969
Is there some way to scrape that IM client status from iChat, skype, gchat, facebook, or whatever else? People could configure that in their contact information/profile. The master switch would be on this site though.

I'm pretty sure Skype, and gchat both have a public API. Not sure about others