20th February 2024 - Link Blog
aiolimiter. I found myself wanting an asyncio rate limiter for Python today—so I could send POSTs to an API endpoint no more than once every 10 seconds. This library worked out really well—it has a very neat design and lets you set up rate limits for things like “no more than 50 items every 10 seconds”, implemented using the leaky bucket algorithm.
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