Hubspot API rate limit in nodejs

[VPatil3]

Hello,

I am implementing hubspot api rate limit policy in nodejs using cisco node/rate-limiter module. I am using some reference code and there is configuration file like this

{

"name":"RATE_LIMIT_OAUTH2_ENDPOINT",

"description":"Prevents DOS attacks on /oauth-callback",

"match":[

{

"type":"endpoint",

"url":"/oauth-callback"

}

],

"action":[

{

"type":"rate",

"permits":1000,

"interval":"1m"

}

]

}

and in app.js the rate limiter module used like below

app.use(rateLimiter.RateLimit.middleware);

Here I am not able to understand, how can I specify permits and interval in above cofiguration file for below hubspot policy for both burst and Daily

Burst:100/10 seconds and

Daily: 250,000

Please help

Thanks

[Teun]

@VPatil3 ,

HubSpot also returns the daily limits in the header of each response, so you could try to dynamically set the token values based on the response you get. Check this doc regarding the response you get when making API calls. 

[Teun]

Hi @VPatil3 ,

I do not know about node/rate-limiter, but I use rate-limiter-flexible myself for the burst limit, and it works great. I can show you how I have set it up. I have the below code in my main app file and pass the limiter variable to all functions that make an API call to HubSpot:

const { RateLimiterMemory, RateLimiterQueue } = require('rate-limiter-flexible');

// Set this a little lower to be on the safe side.
const burstOptions = {
  points: 100, // Requests
  duration: 10 // Seconds
}

// Set this a little lower to be on the safe side.
const dailyOptions = {
  points: 250000, // Requests
  duration: 5184000 // Seconds
}

// Initiate ratelimiter
const burstLimiter = new RateLimiterMemory(burstOptions)
const dailyLimiter = new RateLimiterMemory(dailyOptions)

const burstLimits = new RateLimiterQueue(burstLimiter)
const dailyLimits = new RateLimiterQueue(dailyLimiter)

await randomAPICall(burstLimits, dailyLimits)

So in a function that calls the API, you can do something like this:

const randomAPICall = async (burstLimits, dailyLimits) => {
  const remainingBurstTokens = await burstLimits.removeTokens(1)
  const remainingDailyTokens = await dailyLimits.removeTokens(1)

  return axios({
    method: 'get',
    url: ''
  }).then((response) => {
  }).catch((error) => {
  })
}

If you use async await in your functions, the node package will pause all next calls until you have new tokens available.