diff --git a/sqs-consumer/sqs-consumer-tests.ts b/sqs-consumer/sqs-consumer-tests.ts
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+/// <reference path="./sqs-consumer.d.ts"/>
+
+import * as Consumer from "sqs-consumer";
+
+var app = Consumer.create({
+  queueUrl: 'https://sqs.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/account-id/queue-name',
+  handleMessage: function (message, done) {
+    // do some work with `message` 
+    done();
+  }
+});
+
+var app2 = Consumer.create({
+  queueUrl: 'https://sqs.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/account-id/queue-name',
+  handleMessage: function(message, done){
+    done();
+  },
+  region: "us-west-1",
+  batchSize: 15,
+  visibilityTimeout: 50,
+  waitTimeSeconds: 50
+});
+ 
+app.on('error', function (err: any) {
+  console.log(err.message);
+});
+ 
+app.start();
diff --git a/sqs-consumer/sqs-consumer.d.ts b/sqs-consumer/sqs-consumer.d.ts
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+// Type definitions for sqs-consumer
+// Project: https://github.com/BBC/sqs-consumer
+// Definitions by: Daniel Chao <http://dchao.co/>
+// Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
+
+///<reference path="../aws-sdk/aws-sdk.d.ts"/>
+
+declare module "sqs-consumer" {
+  
+  import { SQS } from "aws-sdk";
+  
+  module SQSConsumer {
+    
+    interface MessageHandler {
+      (message: SQS.Message, done: Function): any;
+    }
+    
+    interface ConsumerOpts {
+      queueUrl: string;
+      handleMessage: MessageHandler;
+      region?: string;
+      attributeNames?: string[];
+      messageAttributeNames?: string[];
+      batchSize?: number;
+      visibilityTimeout?: number;
+      waitTimeSeconds?: number;
+      authenticationErrorTimeout?: number;
+      sqs?: SQS;
+    }
+    
+    interface Consumer extends NodeJS.EventEmitter {
+      start (): void;
+      stop (): void;
+    }
+    
+    interface ConsumerFactory {
+      create(opts: ConsumerOpts): Consumer;
+    }
+  }
+  const Consumer: SQSConsumer.ConsumerFactory;
+  export = Consumer;
+  
+}