From d7da8f133146de4fba1db13bfbc63242c917f817 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arda Serdar Pektezol <1669855+pektezol@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 22:37:31 +0300
Subject: backend: add rate limiting

---
 backend/api/rate.go | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 backend/api/rate.go

(limited to 'backend/api/rate.go')

diff --git a/backend/api/rate.go b/backend/api/rate.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1e262af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backend/api/rate.go
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+package api
+
+import (
+	"net/http"
+
+	"golang.org/x/time/rate"
+
+	"github.com/gin-gonic/gin"
+)
+
+func RateLimit(c *gin.Context) {
+	limiter := rate.NewLimiter(1, 5) // don't know if this is too much or not enough tbh
+	if limiter.Allow() {
+		c.Next()
+	} else {
+		c.AbortWithStatusJSON(http.StatusTooManyRequests, gin.H{
+			"error": "Rate limit exceeded",
+		})
+	}
+}
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