requests-counter 0.2.1

A tool to monitoring the number of request of an/multiple api_key

requests-counter

A tool to monitoring the number of requests from an or multiple api_key.

Use cases

Scenario: A Company that sell a Service that is limited by a max amount of requests.

• As a Company, I would set a request limit for an api_key.
• As a Company, I would update/destroy/inspect the status of subscription via api.

Installation

Requirement

Install redis or run a docker container as below

$> docker run --name test-redis -p6379:6379 -ti redis redis-server --appendonly yes

Package Installation

$> pip install requests-counter

Usage

As request counter for fastapi

from fastapi import Depends, FastAPI, HTTPException

#1. Import the library
from requests_counter.reqcounter import ReqCounter

import asyncio
app = FastAPI()

#2. Create an ReqCounter object with the url to redis instance as parameter
cl = ReqCounter("redis://localhost")

#3. populate the Object with a list of tuple (key, max_value)
asyncio.create_task(cl.setup([("my-api-key-test",10)]))

#4. Declare a function to inject to Depends module. It will decrease the max_value for each request. It will raise a 429 HTTPException when max_value is 0.
async def check_key(key:str):
    res = await cl.decrease(key)
    if res == False:
        raise HTTPException(429, "Too Many Requests", headers={"Retry-After": "renew subscription"})
    return key

#5. Inject the check_key function to endpoint
@app.get("/consume/{key}")
async def consume_key(key: dict = Depends(check_key)):
    return {"job": "done"}

As endpoint

Command below run the server to interact with your redis instance for

• Destroy a key
• Update the value (i.e. renewal)
• Get the status of all keys

$> uvicorn requests_counter.api:app --reload --port 8080

Run http://locahost:8080/dosc for documentation.