Django-ratelimit-backend

Django-ratelimit-backend is an app that allows rate-limiting of login attempts at the authentication backend level. Login attempts are stored in the cache so you need a properly configured cache setup.

By default, it blocks any IP that has more than 30 failed login attempts in the past 5 minutes. The IP can still browse your site, only login attempts are blocked.

Note

If you use a custom authentication backend, there is an additional configuration step. Check the custom backends section.

Get involved, submit issues and pull requests on the code repository!

Changes

  • 2.0 (2018-08-27):

    • Add support for Django 2.0 and 2.1, and drop support for Django < 1.11.
  • 1.2 (2017-09-13):

    • Add no_username attribute on authentication backend for token-based authentication (Jody McIntyre).
    • Fix Travis build for Python 3.3 (Jody McIntyre).
  • 1.1.1 (2017-03-30):

    • Run tests on Python 3.6.
    • Run without warnings on supported Django versions.
  • 1.1 (2017-03-16):

    • Exclude tests from being installed from the wheel file.
    • Add support for Django 1.10 and 1.11.
  • 1.0 (2015-07-10):

    • Silence warnings with Django 1.8.
  • 0.6.4 (2015-03-31):

    • Only set the redirect field to the value of request.get_full_path() if the field does not already have a value. Patch by Michael Blatherwick.
  • 0.6.3 (2015-02-12):

    • Add RatelimitMixin.get_ip.
  • 0.6.2 (2014-07-28):

    • Django 1.7 support. Patch by Mathieu Agopian.
  • 0.6.1 (2014-01-21):

    • Removed calls to deprecated check_test_cookie().
  • 0.6 (2013-04-18):

    The RatelimitBackend now allows arbitrary kwargs for authentication, not just username and password. Patch by Trey Hunner.

  • 0.5 (2013-02-14):

    • Python 3 compatibility.
    • The backend now issues a warning (warnings.warn()) instead of a logging call when no request is passed to the backend. This is because such cases are developer errors so a warning is more appropriate.
  • 0.4 (2013-01-20):

    • Automatically re-register models which have been registered in Django’s default admin site instance. There is no need to register 3rd-party models anymore.
    • Fixed a couple of deprecation warnings.
  • 0.3 (2012-11-22):

    • Removed the part where the admin login form looked up a User object when an email was used to login. This brings support for Django 1.5’s swappable user models.
  • 0.2 (2012-07-31):

    • Added a logging call when a user reaches its rate-limit.
  • 0.1:

    • Initial version.

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