simplelimiter 0.1.4

Simple FastAPI rate limiter

simplelimiter

A simple FastAPI rate limiter

Requirements

Redis

How to use

Install the package

pip install simplelimiter

Example

import redis

from fastapi import FastAPI, APIRouter, Request
from fastapi.params import Depends
from simplelimiter import Limiter


app = FastAPI()
router = APIRouter()

# We initialize the Limiter on the app startup event
@app.on_event("startup")
async def startup():
    r = redis.from_url("redis://localhost", encoding="utf-8", decode_responses=True)
    Limiter.init(redis_instance=r, debug=True)

    return app


# We pass the Limiter as a dependencie
@router.get("/", dependencies=[Depends(Limiter("5/minute"))])
def base_route(request: Request):
    return {"response": "ok"}


app.include_router(router)