Easy way to set up Route Rate Limit Laravel 8 and 9

Here, we are going to see how to set up route rate limit Laravel 8 and 9,

Step 1 – Configure RouteServiceProvider

app/Providers/RouteServiceProvider.php

Example 1 – Custom rate limit (global is a custom word, you can do it with your custom name)

use Illuminate\Cache\RateLimiting\Limit;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\RateLimiter;
 
/**
 * Configure the rate limiters for the application.
 *
 * @return void
 */
protected function configureRateLimiting()
{
    RateLimiter::for('global', function (Request $request) {
        return Limit::perMinute(1000);
    });
}

Example 2 – Here’s another example where we can control upload requests when certain users try to upload more than 100 times per minute/access the upload route, and we have IP based restrictions too.

use Illuminate\Cache\RateLimiting\Limit;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\RateLimiter;
 
/**
 * Configure the rate limiters for the application.
 *
 * @return void
 */
protected function configureRateLimiting()
{
    RateLimiter::for('uploads', function (Request $request) {
    return $request->user()
                ? Limit::perMinute(100)->by($request->user()->id)
                : Limit::perMinute(10)->by($request->ip());
});}

Step 2 – Use Rate Limiters to Routes

After creating a custom rate limiter, we have to attach this to our route as below,

Route::middleware(['throttle:uploads'])->group(function () {
    Route::post('/media_upload', function () {
        //
    });
});

• throttle is the default routing middleware. You can see that it is assigned by default in kernel.php
• uploads method is a custom rate limiter which has been set up in #step 1.

I hope this has helped you to get a basic understanding of Laravel Rate Limiter. If you still have any doubts, feel free to ask me in the comment section.

Cheers!