---
id: amqp
version: "5.3.1"
license: BSD
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
---

# amqp — Low-level AMQP client for Python (fork of amqplib).

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Popularity: top 1,000 on PyPI

## Install

pip install amqp
uv add amqp
poetry add amqp

## Description

=====================================================================
 Python AMQP 0.9.1 client library
=====================================================================

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:Version: 5.3.1
:Web: https://amqp.readthedocs.io/
:Download: https://pypi.org/project/amqp/
:Source: http://github.com/celery/py-amqp/
:Keywords: amqp, rabbitmq

About
=====

This is a fork of amqplib_ which was originally written by Barry Pederson.
It is maintained by the Celery_ project, and used by `kombu`_ as a pure python
alternative when `librabbitmq`_ is not available.

This library should be API compatible with `librabbitmq`_.

.. _amqplib: https://pypi.org/project/amqplib/
.. _Celery: http://celeryproject.org/
.. _kombu: https://kombu.readthedocs.io/
.. _librabbitmq: https://pypi.org/project/librabbitmq/

Differences from `amqplib`_
===========================

- Supports draining events from multiple channels (``Connection.drain_events``)
- Support for timeouts
- Channels are restored after channel error, instead of having to close the
  connection.
- Support for heartbeats

    - ``Connection.heartbeat_tick(rate=2)`` must called...

## AI interpretation — verify before relying

A pure-Python AMQP 0.9.1 client library for connecting to message brokers like RabbitMQ, providing channel-based message publishing and consumption with support for heartbeats, publisher confirms, and consumer acknowledgments.

Verdict: Mature, actively maintained AMQP client with low install friction and no known vulnerabilities. Well-suited for applications needing direct AMQP protocol access or as a fallback when compiled alternatives are unavailable. Production-ready with broad Python version support (3.7–3.10+).

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