How to get all messages in Amazon SQS queue using boto library in Python?

Question

I\'m working on an application whose workflow is managed by passing messages in SQS, using boto.

My SQS queue is growing gradually, and I have no way to check how many e

Answer 1

Put your call to q.get_messages(n) inside while loop:

all_messages=[]
rs=q.get_messages(10)
while len(rs)>0:
    all_messages.extend(rs)
    rs=q.get_messages(10)

Additionally, dump won't support more than 10 messages either:

def dump(self, file_name, page_size=10, vtimeout=10, sep='\n'):
    """Utility function to dump the messages in a queue to a file
    NOTE: Page size must be < 10 else SQS errors"""