Skip to main content

docs ci codecov pypi license

Flask-Limiter provides rate limiting features to flask applications.

It allows configuring various backends to persist the rate limits, which is provided by the limits library.

Compatibility

The 2.x versions of the extension only supports Pythons versions >= 3.7 and Flask >= 2.0.

If you are looking for support for older versions, please refer to the 1.x branch

Quickstart

Add the rate limiter to your flask app. The following example uses the default in memory implementation for storage.

from flask import Flask
from flask_limiter import Limiter
from flask_limiter.util import get_remote_address

app = Flask(__name__)
limiter = Limiter(
    app,
    key_func=get_remote_address,
    default_limits=["2 per minute", "1 per second"],
)

@app.route("/slow")
@limiter.limit("1 per day")
def slow():
    return "24"

@app.route("/fast")
def fast():
    return "42"

@app.route("/ping")
@limiter.exempt
def ping():
    return 'PONG'

app.run()

Test it out. The fast endpoint respects the default rate limit while the slow endpoint uses the decorated one. ping has no rate limit associated with it.

$ curl localhost:5000/fast
42
$ curl localhost:5000/fast
42
$ curl localhost:5000/fast
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">
<title>429 Too Many Requests</title>
<h1>Too Many Requests</h1>
<p>2 per 1 minute</p>
$ curl localhost:5000/slow
24
$ curl localhost:5000/slow
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">
<title>429 Too Many Requests</title>
<h1>Too Many Requests</h1>
<p>1 per 1 day</p>
$ curl localhost:5000/ping
PONG
$ curl localhost:5000/ping
PONG
$ curl localhost:5000/ping
PONG
$ curl localhost:5000/ping
PONG

Read the docs

Download files

Download the file for your platform. If you're not sure which to choose, learn more about installing packages.

Source Distribution

Flask-Limiter-2.3.1.tar.gz (247.3 kB view details)

Uploaded Source

Built Distribution

If you're not sure about the file name format, learn more about wheel file names.

Flask_Limiter-2.3.1-py3-none-any.whl (17.7 kB view details)

Uploaded Python 3

File details

Details for the file Flask-Limiter-2.3.1.tar.gz.

File metadata

  • Download URL: Flask-Limiter-2.3.1.tar.gz
  • Upload date:
  • Size: 247.3 kB
  • Tags: Source
  • Uploaded using Trusted Publishing? No
  • Uploaded via: twine/4.0.0 CPython/3.9.12

File hashes

Hashes for Flask-Limiter-2.3.1.tar.gz
Algorithm Hash digest
SHA256 8df2731da1ae2769ef51c38c1166d3d761ae9c175641018bc00b9c2e96b8c235
MD5 747b619ac05189a6543486b8b7416f32
BLAKE2b-256 30728bd015a5a964b08c8e0b39e13beacfaab7293b1d989d6d4c6c11654187fa

See more details on using hashes here.

File details

Details for the file Flask_Limiter-2.3.1-py3-none-any.whl.

File metadata

  • Download URL: Flask_Limiter-2.3.1-py3-none-any.whl
  • Upload date:
  • Size: 17.7 kB
  • Tags: Python 3
  • Uploaded using Trusted Publishing? No
  • Uploaded via: twine/4.0.0 CPython/3.9.12

File hashes

Hashes for Flask_Limiter-2.3.1-py3-none-any.whl
Algorithm Hash digest
SHA256 d5af0f4f1036689ccd0b808ce1f3532a7ebfd2b38704accf0f701aae4efb38bd
MD5 4f39e1cc0b76dce5e564b5aeecbbfeba
BLAKE2b-256 dc80b965080a0a22af087def46d539c7a298df0ad65412f6d0ddb25e237c925d

See more details on using hashes here.

Release history Release notifications | RSS feed

Supported by

AWS Cloud computing and Security Sponsor Datadog Monitoring Depot Continuous Integration Fastly CDN Google Download Analytics Pingdom Monitoring Sentry Error logging StatusPage Status page