Using slowapi in bigger application

In test.py from app is run:

import uvicorn

from app.main import app

if __name__ == "__main__":
    uvicorn.run("test:app", host="0.0.0.0", port=8000, reload=True)

In main.py

from app.api.api_v1.api import router as api_router
from fastapi import FastAPI
from slowapi import Limiter, _rate_limit_exceeded_handler
from slowapi.util import get_remote_address
from slowapi.errors import RateLimitExceeded
def get_application() -> FastAPI:
     application = FastAPI(title=PROJECT_NAME, debug=DEBUG, version=VERSION)
     application.add_event_handler(
        "startup", create_start_app_handler(application))
     application.add_event_handler(
        "shutdown", create_stop_app_handler(application))
    application.add_exception_handler(RateLimitExceeded, _rate_limit_exceeded_handler)
    application.include_router(api_router, prefix=API_PREFIX)

     return application
app = get_application()

In endpoint user.py, how to use @limiter.limit(“5/minute”) ?

from starlette.requests import Request
router = APIRouter()
@router.post('/show',
             tags=["show"],
             name="show:show")
async def homepage(request: Request):
        return PlainTextResponse("test")
***code****

In this use case how to use slowapi in endpoint. I need to limit to 5 requests per minute per user only and block that user for a minute Sleep and retry after a minute

In api.py

from app.api.api_v1.endpoints.show import router as ShowRouter

router = APIRouter()



router.include_router(ShowRouter, tags=["show"], prefix="/show")

[laurentS]

Your code is not importing the limiter object but a function, that’s why it’s not working. You don’t need that extra limiter function, you can just define the object in the limiter file and import it elsewhere.

[laurentS]

Hi @himalacharya is your question about how to import limiter in your endpoint file? Or about limiting per user? In that latter case, you need to define what “user” means. Is it an IP address? their userID? something else?