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APIs are a very common way to interact with web services. As the need to
consume data grows, so does the number of API calls necessary to remain up to
date with data sources. However many API providers constrain developers from
making too many API calls. This is know as rate limiting and in a worst case
scenario your application can be banned from making further API calls if it
abuses these limits.

This packages introduces a function decorator preventing a function from being
called more often than that allowed by the API provider. This should prevent
API providers from banning your applications by conforming to their rate
limits.

Installation

PyPi


To install ratelimit, simply:

.. code:: bash

    $ pip install ratelimit

GitHub

Installing the latest version from Github:

.. code:: bash

$ git clone https://github.com/tomasbasham/ratelimit
$ cd ratelimit
$ python setup.py install

Usage

To use this package simply decorate any function that makes an API call:

.. code:: python

from ratelimit import limits

import requests

FIFTEEN_MINUTES = 900

@limits(calls=15, period=FIFTEEN_MINUTES)
def call_api(url):
    response = requests.get(url)

    if response.status_code != 200:
        raise Exception('API response: {}'.format(response.status_code))
    return response

This function will not be able to make more then 15 API call within a 15 minute
time period.

The arguments passed into the decorator describe the number of function
invocation allowed over a specified time period (in seconds). If no time period
is specified then it defaults to 15 minutes (the time window imposed by
Twitter).

If a decorated function is called more times than that allowed within the
specified time period then a ratelimit.RateLimitException is raised. This
may be used to implement a retry strategy such as an expoential backoff <https://pypi.org/project/backoff/>_

.. code:: python

from ratelimit import limits, RateLimitException
from backoff import on_exception, expo

import requests

FIFTEEN_MINUTES = 900

@on_exception(expo, RateLimitException, max_tries=8)
@limits(calls=15, period=FIFTEEN_MINUTES)
def call_api(url):
    response = requests.get(url)

    if response.status_code != 200:
        raise Exception('API response: {}'.format(response.status_code))
    return response

Alternatively to cause the current thread to sleep until the specified time
period has ellapsed and then retry the function use the sleep_and_retry
decorator. This ensures that every function invocation is successful at the
cost of halting the thread.

.. code:: python

from ratelimit import limits, sleep_and_retry

import requests

FIFTEEN_MINUTES = 900

@sleep_and_retry
@limits(calls=15, period=FIFTEEN_MINUTES)
def call_api(url):
    response = requests.get(url)

    if response.status_code != 200:
        raise Exception('API response: {}'.format(response.status_code))
    return response

Contributing

Fork it (https://github.com/tomasbasham/ratelimit/fork)
Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
Create a new Pull Request

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