04-Django Adv

Throttling - API rate limiting

Throttling

API rate limiting is a technique used to control the number of requests a user or client can make to an API within a specific time frame. In Django, you can implement rate limiting using third-party libraries like Django REST Framework’s (DRF) throttling or by integrating specialized libraries like django-ratelimit.

4.1 Using Django REST Framework (DRF) Throttling

DRF provides built-in throttling classes to enforce rate limits.

Period should be one of: (’s’, ‘sec’, ’m’, ‘min’, ‘h’, ‘hour’, ’d’, ‘day’)

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