simple-token-bucket 0.2.0

No project description provided

Simple Token Bucket

A simple token bucket implementation.

Project philosophy

simple-token-bucket is meant to be a light and very simple to use token bucket library. Simple is better than complex.

Installation

simple-token-bucket is available on PyPI:

python -m pip install simple-token-bucket[redis]

This project requires Python 3.8 or newer to run.

Usage example

from simple_token_bucket import SimpleTokenBucket
from simple_token_bucket.backends.redis import RedisBackend

# Create a new bucket
third_party_api_rate_limit_bucket = SimpleTokenBucket(
    name="third_party_api",
    bucket_size=3,
    interval=10,
    backend=RedisBackend.from_url("redis://localhost:6379/0")
)

third_party_api_rate_limit_bucket.try_get_token()
third_party_api_rate_limit_bucket.try_get_token()
third_party_api_rate_limit_bucket.try_get_token()

# will raises a NotEnoughTokens exception.
third_party_api_rate_limit_bucket.try_get_token()

# after 10 seconds everything works again.
import time
time.sleep(10)
third_party_api_rate_limit_bucket.try_get_token()

The latest documentation can be found here

https://simple-token-bucket.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Contributing

Contributions are welcome. See Contributing section in docs.