---
name: express-rate-limit
version: 7.5.1
type: npm
summary: Basic IP rate-limiting middleware for Express. Use to limit repeated requests
  to public APIs and/or endpoints such as password reset.
homepage: https://github.com/express-rate-limit/express-rate-limit
license: other
licenses:
- sources: license.md
  text: "\uFEFF# MIT License\n\nCopyright 2023 Nathan Friedly, Vedant K\n\nPermission
    is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of\nthis software
    and associated documentation files (the \"Software\"), to deal in\nthe Software
    without restriction, including without limitation the rights to\nuse, copy, modify,
    merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of\nthe Software, and
    to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so,\nsubject to the
    following conditions:\n\nThe above copyright notice and this permission notice
    shall be included in all\ncopies or substantial portions of the Software.\n\nTHE
    SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED \"AS IS\", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR\nIMPLIED,
    INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS\nFOR A
    PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR\nCOPYRIGHT
    HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER\nIN AN ACTION
    OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN\nCONNECTION WITH THE
    SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.\n"
- sources: readme.md
  text: "MIT © [Nathan Friedly](http://nfriedly.com/),\n[Vedant K](https://github.com/gamemaker1)\n\n[`windowMs`]:\n\thttps://express-rate-limit.mintlify.app/reference/configuration#windowms\n[`limit`]:
    https://express-rate-limit.mintlify.app/reference/configuration#limit\n[`message`]:\n\thttps://express-rate-limit.mintlify.app/reference/configuration#message\n[`statusCode`]:\n\thttps://express-rate-limit.mintlify.app/reference/configuration#statuscode\n[`handler`]:\n\thttps://express-rate-limit.mintlify.app/reference/configuration#handler\n[`legacyHeaders`]:\n\thttps://express-rate-limit.mintlify.app/reference/configuration#legacyheaders\n[`standardHeaders`]:\n\thttps://express-rate-limit.mintlify.app/reference/configuration#standardheaders\n[`identifier`]:\n\thttps://express-rate-limit.mintlify.app/reference/configuration#identifier\n[`store`]:
    https://express-rate-limit.mintlify.app/reference/configuration#store\n[`passOnStoreError`]:\n\thttps://express-rate-limit.mintlify.app/reference/configuration#passOnStoreError\n[`keyGenerator`]:\n\thttps://express-rate-limit.mintlify.app/reference/configuration#keygenerator\n[`requestPropertyName`]:\n\thttps://express-rate-limit.mintlify.app/reference/configuration#requestpropertyname\n[`skip`]:
    https://express-rate-limit.mintlify.app/reference/configuration#skip\n[`skipSuccessfulRequests`]:\n\thttps://express-rate-limit.mintlify.app/reference/configuration#skipsuccessfulrequests\n[`skipFailedRequests`]:\n\thttps://express-rate-limit.mintlify.app/reference/configuration#skipfailedrequests\n[`requestWasSuccessful`]:\n\thttps://express-rate-limit.mintlify.app/reference/configuration#requestwassuccessful\n[`validate`]:\n\thttps://express-rate-limit.mintlify.app/reference/configuration#validate"
notices: []