Embedded videos trigger 429 TOO MANY REQUESTS

[fabiomaschi]

Describe the current behavior
We are embedding several (>15) videos into a single page on an external website, and peertube responds with HTTP 409: TOO MANY REQUESTS for several requests.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create a dummy HTML page
2. Embed any 20 videos from the same instance
3. Open the page

Describe the expected behavior
A larger number of embedded videos (thumbnails and video player) should be properly loaded without triggering error 429. Maybe we could try to reduce the number of calls (e.g., I see captions being loaded before playing the video)?

Additional information
I've tried removing all limit_rate and similar modules from /etc/nginx/sites-available/peertube, but the behaviour persists. I also tried to add ngx_http_limit_req_module, ngx_http_limit_conn_module and follow this guide, but I couldn't manage to solve the issue (either by increasing the limit, either by just removing any limit protection).

Question: is there any other component that could raise 429 error code other than NGINX?

• PeerTube instance:
  • URL: https://video.igem.org
  • version: 3.1.0
  • NodeJS version: v14.16.1

Thank you

[Chocobozzz]

Hello,

Rate limit is defined in peertube config: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/develop/config/production.yaml.example#L11

(e.g., I see captions being loaded before playing the video)?

It should be fixed in the next release (we'll lazy load captions)

[rasos]

embedded videos have a post to the api endpoint, so we had to increase the value for api to 500 for a web page with many videos embedded