djlimiter 0.2

Rate limiting for django applications

djlimiter provides rate limiting features to django via a middleware.

Quickstart

Add the rate limiter to your django projects’ settings.py and enable a global rate limit for all views in your project:

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES += ("djlimiter.Limiter",)
RATELIMIT_GLOBAL = "10/second"

If you only want to enable rate limits to certain endpoints, leave out the RATELIMIT_GLOBAL setting and use the decorator approach instead in the respective view function:

@limit("10/second")
def index(request):
   ...

For detailed documentation visit Read the docs

Changelog

0.2 2015-12-20

• Django 1.8/1.9 compatibility

0.1.1 2015-01-09

• Bug Fix: remove duplicate hits when rate limits are stacked.
• Bug Fix: multiple rate limits returned by dynamic limits weren’t respected.
• Documentation tweaks.

0.1.0 2015-01-09

• first release.