Receive and delete messages from a SQS queue

Receive and delete message from a SQS queue.

Library: boto3

import boto3

# Create SQS client
sqs = boto3.client('sqs')


# Receive message from SQS queue
response = sqs.receive_message(
  QueueUrl=queueurl,
  AttributeNames=attributes_names,
  MaxNumberOfMessages=1,
  MessageAttributeNames=[
    'All'
  ],
  VisibilityTimeout=0,
  WaitTimeSeconds=0
)

message = response['Messages'][0]
receipt_handle = message['ReceiptHandle']

# Delete received message from queue
sqs.delete_message(
  QueueUrl=queueurl,
  ReceiptHandle=receipt_handle
)
print('Received and deleted message: %s' % message)