Segun Laravel Superban Package

Introduction

The Laravel Superban package provides a middleware for rate limiting and banning clients based on specified criteria. It allows you to easily configure rate limits, ban durations, and apply these restrictions to specific or all routes in your Laravel application.

Installation

Install the package via Composer:

composer require segun/superban

Configuration

Publish the configuration file to customize your settings

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=superban-config

The configuration file will be located at config/superban.php.

Configuration Options

cache_driver: Specify the cache driver for rate limiting and banning (e.g redis, database). ban_criteria: Define criteria for banning clients (e.g user_id, ip_address, email).

Usage

Apply the superban middleware to your routes or route groups:

use Superban\Middleware\SuperbanMiddleware;

Route::middleware(['superban:200,2,1440'])->group(function () {
    Route::post('/thisroute', function () {
        // Your route logic here
    });

    Route::post('/anotherroute', function () {
        // Your route logic here
    });
});

In this example:

200 is the number of requests allowed. 2 is the time window in minutes for the specified number of requests. 1440 is the ban duration in minutes.

Running tests

To run a test, the command composer test is run