koa-ratelimit-lru

Rate limiter middleware backed by lru-cache for koa@2

Koa2

Middleware using async/await , so you have to run in Node.js >= 7.0.0 with --harmony_async_await or using babel

Installation

$ npm install koa-ratelimit-lru

Example

const ratelimit = require('koa-ratelimit-lru')
const Koa = require('koa')
const app = new Koa()
 
// apply rate limit
 
app.use(ratelimit({
  duration: 60000,
  rate: 100,
  id (ctx) {
    return ctx.ip
  },
  headers: {
    remaining: 'Rate-Limit-Remaining',
    reset: 'Rate-Limit-Reset',
    total: 'Rate-Limit-Total'
  },
  errorMessage: 'Sometimes You Just Have to Slow Down.'
}))
 
// response middleware
 
app.use(ctx => {
  ctx.body = 'Hello World'
})
 
app.listen(3000, _ => console.log('listening on port 3000'))

Using one lru-cache to store keys

const ratelimit = require('koa-ratelimit-lru')
const Koa = require('koa')
const router = require('koa-router')()
const app = new Koa()
const store = require('lru-cache')()
 
// Note: When you using custom store, duration and max would lose efficacy
 
router.get(
    '/foo',
    ratelimit({
        store,
        rate: 5,
        prefix: 'foo:'
    }),
    ctx => ctx.body = 'foo'
)
 
router.get(
    '/bar',
    ratelimit({
        store,
        rate: 10,
        prefix: 'bar:'
    }),
    ctx => ctx.body = 'bar'
)
 
// response middleware
 
app.use(router.routes())
 
app.listen(3000, _ => console.log('listening on port 3000'))

Options

• duration limit duration in milliseconds [1 minute]
• max max length of cache [Infinity]
• store custom lru-cache [new cache]
• prefix custom prefix in lru-cache [ratelimit:]
• rate max requests per id [1000]
• id id to compare requests [ip]
• body custom throw body [json]
• headers custom header names
• remaining remaining number of requests ['X-RateLimit-Remaining']
• reset reset timestamp ['X-RateLimit-Reset']
• total total number of requests ['X-RateLimit-Limit']

Responses

Example 200 with header fields:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
X-RateLimit-Limit: 100
X-RateLimit-Remaining: 99
X-RateLimit-Reset: 1477978284
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 12
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2016 05:13:11 GMT
Connection: keep-alive

Stuff!

Example 429 response:

HTTP/1.1 429 Too Many Requests
X-RateLimit-Remaining: 0
X-RateLimit-Reset: 1477978284
X-RateLimit-Limit: 100
Retry-After: 2
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 50
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2016 05:31:21 GMT
Connection: keep-alive

{"msg":"Rate limit exceeded, retry in 3 seconds."}

License

MIT