Django Rate Limiter

• Tested on: Python 3.11.5
• Django 5.2.12

Start by installing the package:

pip install django-api-rate-limiter

Then add in your settings.py

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    # rest of the apps..
    'django_api_rate_limiter'
]

# you will need to configure the default cache to point to Redis 

CACHES = {
    "default": {
        "BACKEND": "django_redis.cache.RedisCache",
        "LOCATION": "redis://127.0.0.1:6379/1",
        "OPTIONS": {
            "CLIENT_CLASS": "django_redis.client.DefaultClient",
        }
    }
}

Navigate to your /admin page and visit section "Admin_Limiter"->"Api limiters".

There you can set up your own limits specified in "values per second". For example, you can fill up as:

Speed Value	10
Method	Get
Url	/api/limited

This translates to: For every anonymous & logged in user apply the limit of 10 requests per second for GET requests going to /api/limited

If your project is using django-oauth-toolkit, you can specify per-user limits, which are linked to the oauth tokens issued to users

Please install OpenResty if you would like to use the Lua files from "nginx_lua" folder

You can find example & detailed explanation at https://decodeapps.pp.ua/blog/post/how-to-build-dynamic-nginx-rate-limiting-with-django-admin-redis