Parse RabbitMQ messages

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Sometimes, you have lots of messages in the RabbitMQ dead-letter queue and you want to analyze such messages.

Usually, you go to the RabbitMQ admin, get all messages and copy and paste and start analyzing…

But it is a daunting task, isn’t it?!

What if you have a Python library that reads a such big file full of messages and parses it for you?

Meet rmq-msg-parser, it works simply by reading the file and providing a list of Message objects that contains the message id, payload, headers and other attributes as well.

Example usage:

from rmqparser import messages

msgs = messages.get_messages(r'data/my_rabbitmq_messages.txt')

for m in msgs:
    print(m.id, m.payload, m.headers, m.headers['__Exception_Message__'])

Here’s the Library on Github:

GitHub - mhewedy/rmq-msg-parser: A Python library for parsing RabbitMQ messages from text file