AWS Elastic Beanstalk - how to get URL though CLI - amazon-web-services

Question

I am fairly new to AWS, I wrote a script to create a ElasticBeanstalk server and deploy code to it which works fine
I am able to get the IP Address and Instance ID using
aws ec2 describe-instances
I know a typical HTTP URL looks like this
http://(cname-prefix).(region).elasticbeanstalk.com
and I used it to "generate" the URL in the script
But I want to check if we can get the URL using CLI

Answer 1

The AWS CLI has a command for this, it describes the elastic beanstalk environment and one of the resulting values is the Endpoint URL
For load-balanced, autoscaling environments, it returns the URL to the LoadBalancer. For single-instance environments, the IP address of the instance is returned.
See docs
aws elasticbeanstalk describe-environments --environment-names my-env
The output looks like this:
{
"Environments": [
{
"ApplicationName": "my-app",
"EnvironmentName": "my-env",
"VersionLabel": "7f58-stage-150812_025409",
"Status": "Ready",
"EnvironmentId": "e-rpqsewtp2j",
"EndpointURL": "awseb-e-w-AWSEBLoa-1483140XB0Q4L-109QXY8121.us-west-2.elb.amazonaws.com",
"SolutionStackName": "64bit Amazon Linux 2015.03 v2.0.0 running Tomcat 8 Java 8",
"CNAME": "my-env.elasticbeanstalk.com",
"Health": "Green",
"AbortableOperationInProgress": false,
"Tier": {
"Version": " ",
"Type": "Standard",
"Name": "WebServer"
},
"DateUpdated": "2015-08-12T18:16:55.019Z",
"DateCreated": "2015-08-07T20:48:49.599Z"
}
]
}