Rate Limiting in laravel to x times per day using RateLimiter

Question

I am trying to restrict usage of a certain endpoint to 10 times per day per user, and I can see how to do it for a certain number of times per minute. Please note that this is within a controller, not as middleware.

    $executed = RateLimiter::attempt(
        'user-send-test-' . Auth::user()->id,
        $perDay = 10,
        function () {
            // some process
        }
    );

the second parameter of `attempt()` is in minutes, as 10 per minutes. it doesn't matter the name you give to the variable `$perDay` or `$perCentury` it will still be per minute. — N69S, May 29 '22 at 22:31

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 30 '22 at 08:25

To use the rate limiter per day, use the fourth parameter of the method attemp() which is the decay (how long an attempt need to be counted for) but I never tested it.

$executed = RateLimiter::attempt(
    'user-send-test-' . Auth::user()->id,
    $perDay = 10,
    function () {
        // some process
    },
    60*60*24 // or 86400
    );

If you still encounter issues with this example, I suggest you copy the RateLimiter class as it is very small and adapt its code.

Rate Limiting in laravel to x times per day using RateLimiter

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