How to protect API route?

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Kryp Arnold posted this in #help-forum

2023-09-05T23:18:04.000Z

Hello guys, one of my api route will be public and i dont want people to abuse it i mean they can just write a simple javascript and limit the bandwidth i think and i will publish it on vercel is this a problem?

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European sprat

2023-09-05T23:35:54.000Z

You could do some kind of rate limiting based on the IP that you get in headers

Kryp ArnoldOP

2023-09-05T23:47:50.000Z

is there any tutorial on it?

or any library

European sprat

2023-09-05T23:50:45.000Z

I don't know any

Cuban Martin

2023-09-05T23:54:42.000Z

checkout this tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4-2K7nFf7s&t=1567s

He configures a rate limiter at 15:51