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Python Rate-Limiter using Leaky-Bucket Algorimth Family

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PyrateLimiter

The request rate limiter using Leaky-bucket algorithm

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Introduction

This module can be used to apply rate-limit for API request. User defines window duration and the limit of function calls within such interval. To hold the state of the Bucket, you can use MemoryListBucket/MemoryQueueBucket as internal bucket. To use PyrateLimiter with Redis, redis-py is required to be installed. It is also possible to use your own Bucket implementation, by extending AbstractBucket from pyrate_limiter.core

Available modules

from pyrate_limiter import (
    BucketFullException,
    Duration,
    RequestRate,
    Limiter,
    MemoryListBucket,
    MemoryQueueBucket,
)

Strategies

Subscription strategies

Considering API throttling logic for usual business models of Subscription, we usually see strategies somewhat similar to these.

Some commercial/free API (Linkedin, Github etc)
- 500 requests/hour, and
- 1000 requests/day, and
- maximum 10,000 requests/month
  • RequestRate class is designed to describe this strategies - eg for the above strategies we have a Rate-Limiter defined as following
hourly_rate = RequestRate(500, Duration.HOUR) # maximum 500 requests/hour
daily_rate = RequestRate(1000, Duration.DAY) # maximum 1000 requests/day
monthly_rate = RequestRate(10000, Duration.MONTH) # and so on

limiter = Limiter(hourly_rate, daily_rate, monthly_rate, *other_rates, bucket_class=MemoryListBucket) # default is MemoryQueueBucket

# usage
identity = user_id # or ip-address, or maybe both
limiter.try_acquire(identity)

As the logic is pretty self-explainatory, note that the superior rate-limit must come after the inferiors, ie 1000 req/day must be declared after an hourly-rate-limit, and the daily-limit must be larger than hourly-limit.

  • bucket_class is the type of bucket that holds request. It could be an in-memory data structure like Python List (MemoryListBucket), or Queue MemoryQueueBucket.

  • For microservices or decentralized platform, multiple rate-Limiter may share a single store for storing request-rate history, ie Redis. This lib provides a ready-use RedisBucket to handle such case, and required redis-py as its peer-dependency. The usage difference is when using Redis, a naming prefix must be provide so the keys can be distinct for each item's identity.

from redis import ConnectionPool

pool = ConnectionPool.from_url('redis://localhost:6379')

rate = RequestRate(3, 5 * Duration.SECOND)

bucket_kwargs = {
    "redis_pool": redis_pool,
    "bucket_name": "my-ultimate-bucket-prefix"
}

# so each item buckets will have a key name as
# my-ultimate-bucket-prefix__item-identity

limiter = Limiter(rate, bucket_class=RedisBucket, bucket_kwargs=bucket_kwargs)
item = 'vutran_item'
limiter.try_acquire(item)
  • *RequestRate may be required to reset on a fixed schedule, eg: every first-day of a month

Spam-protection strategies

  • Sometimes, we need a rate-limiter to protect our API from spamming/ddos attack. Some usual strategies for this could be as following
1. No more than 100 requests/minute, or
2. 100 request per minute, and no more than 300 request per hour

Throttling handling

When the number of incoming requets go beyond the limit, we can either do..

1. Raise a 429 Http Error, or
2. Keep the incoming requests, wait then slowly process them one by one.

More complex scenario

https://www.keycdn.com/support/rate-limiting#types-of-rate-limits

  • *Sometimes, we may need to apply specific rate-limiting strategies based on schedules/region or some other metrics. It requires the capability to switch the strategies instantly without re-deploying the whole service.

Notes

Todo-items marked with (*) are planned for v3 release.

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