Request Parameters Response Elements Errors Examples See Also

GetQueueUrl

Returns the URL of an existing Amazon SQS queue.

To access a queue that belongs to another AWS account, use the QueueOwnerAWSAccountId parameter to specify the account ID of the queue's owner. The queue's owner must grant you permission to access the queue. For more information about shared queue access, see AddPermission or see Allow Developers to Write Messages to a Shared Queue in the Amazon SQS Developer Guide.

Request Parameters

For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.

QueueName

The name of the queue whose URL must be fetched. Maximum 80 characters. Valid values: alphanumeric characters, hyphens (-), and underscores (_).

Queue URLs and names are case-sensitive.

Type: String

Required: Yes

QueueOwnerAWSAccountId

The Amazon Web Services account ID of the account that created the queue.

Type: String

Required: No

Response Elements

The following element is returned by the service.

QueueUrl

The URL of the queue.

Type: String

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

AWS.SimpleQueueService.NonExistentQueue

The specified queue doesn't exist.

HTTP Status Code: 400

Examples

Example

The following example query request gets the URL for the specified queue. The structure of AUTHPARAMS depends on the signature of the API request. For more information, see Examples of Signed Signature Version 4 Requests in the Amazon General Reference.

Sample Request


https://sqs.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/
?Action=GetQueueUrl
&QueueName=MyQueue
&Expires=2020-10-24T22%3A52%3A43PST
&Version=2012-11-05
&AUTHPARAMS

Sample Response


<GetQueueUrlResponse>
    <GetQueueUrlResult>
        <QueueUrl>https://sqs.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/123456789012/MyQueue</QueueUrl>
    </GetQueueUrlResult>
    <ResponseMetadata>
        <RequestId>470a6f13-2ed9-4181-ad8a-2fdea142988e</RequestId>
    </ResponseMetadata>
</GetQueueUrlResponse>