Limiting API Request for my users

[johnny]

Hey Bubblers,

I was wondering if there was a way to setup rate limits for backend (API workflows) so I can prevent any cap in capacity causing issues sitewide.

If anyone has any insight I’d love to hear it!

[NigelG]

Are you talking about external API calls into your app ?

Or internal user actions causing workflow runs ?

[johnny]

Like getting data from my app through an API

[NigelG]

If you wrapped the data API in Integromat then it would limit to 5 calls per second (IIRC).

[johnny]

Thanks @NigelG! I’ll look into Integromat, but how would I exactly wrap the data API in Integromat?

[vnihoul77]

Hi @johnny

I had the same issue and find out a built-in solution

Create our own API quotas + genrate key in front-end

@Bubbleboy @brentsum Thanks, I took a look, and it seems the perfect solution to the issue. However, I don’t have any skills in Express and Node … In the meantime, this is how I achieved it using only workflows: [EXCEL - New frame] It works very very well and offers a lot of “easy customization” but I think it’s definitely not the best idea for performance and speed…

[NigelG]

Create a Webhook in integromat. Then in the webhook call your Bubble API.

I am sure there are other solutions, but this is fresh in my mind as I have used it in Bubble for another reason.

There is a video on my new site.

https://www.nocodeboss.com

You could also implement the “quota” system in there as well I think.

But what that does is rate-limit outside Bubble, and will return a 439 (I think) if they exceed 5 per second.

So that will create a hard-limit on your data API so Bubble doesn’t get swamped. If you want to do it per user with a quota then the ideas above are probably a good start. Still doesn’t stop your API getting hammered though.