Rate Limiter - built for Cloudflare Workers, using Durable Objects

Features

• Supports fixed or sliding window algorithms
• Scoped rate-limiting
• Caching
• Cleanup of stale DO data using alarm
• Responses provide all information needed to take actions (or not)
• Tested in production (well, not actually)

FAQ

How to use

You can use it as a subworker as described here.

But it doesn't rate limit anything

Yeah, that's the sad truth. The code is there to decide whether or not a request should be rate-limited, but currently, it just outputs the results in a JSON response. The reason is that this is how it's being used as part of another project I'm working on. That said, I think it's a good starting point as it would require minimal changes from you to send the right responses back.

What about pricing? How does it compare with CF's own rate-limiter?

Well, it all depends on the use case. You can check out the cost calculator.

Description of JSON Body (usage)

• type: type can be one of sliding or fixed and describes the algorithm that will be used.
• scope: the value of this header is used as the rate-limit scope.
• key: the key is the client information, which can be an IP (most of the time), a network, a username, or even a user-agent. In general, feel free to use whatever you like.
• limit: the value of this header provides the request limit (e.g. 10).
• interval: the interval (in seconds) upon which all calculations are based.

Responses

Response status will be one of:

• 200, meaning that the request was processed without problems
• 400, JSON input error
• 500, any other error, info can be found in the response body

Response body on successful requests depends on the type of algorithm used and the outcome.

If the request should be rate-limited, you would find an error property, with a value of rate-limited, if not, depending on the algorithm used, you will find quota information:

• The sliding type might return one of the two following bodies:

{
    "rate": "number, rate of the incoming requests"
}

or

{
    "rate": "number, rate of the incoming requests",
    "error": "rate-limited"
}

• The fixed type might return one of the following bodies:

{ 
    "resets": "number, seconds since epoch",
    "remaining": "number, remaining requests until rate-limiting"
}

or

{
    "resets": "number, seconds since epoch",
    "error": "rate-limited"
}