How to Rate Limit Route Requests in Laravel
According to Wikipedia, In computer networks, rate limiting is used to control the rate of requests sent or received by a network interface controller and is used to prevent DoS attacks. In this article, we are going to set rate limits in Laravel routes.
We can do it using Laravel throttle
middleware. Let’s get started:
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Basic Example
Let’s set throttle
middleware in a route:
Route::get('/user', function () {
//
})->middleware('auth', 'throttle:20,1');
An authenticated user access route 20 times per minute. After crossing the limit the route will return 429 Too Many Requests
.
Apply on Route Group
We can easily set rate limit in a group of routes:
Route::middleware('auth:api', 'throttle:20,1')->group(function () {
Route::get('/user', function () {
//
});
});
Dynamic Rate Limit
We can set a dynamic rate limit variable instead of a hard-coded number of maximum requests:
Route::middleware('auth:api', 'throttle:rate_limit,1')->group(function () {
Route::get('/user', function () {
//
});
});
The rate_limit
is an attribute of a User
model.
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