Laravel Notification Rate Limit

Rate Limiting Notifications in Laravel using Laravel's native rate limiter to avoid flooding users with duplicate notifications.

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require jamesmills/laravel-notification-rate-limit

Update your Notifications

Add ShouldRateLimit and RateLimitedNotification to your the Notifications you would like to Raterate limit.

<?php

namespace App\Notifications;

use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;
use Illuminate\Notifications\Messages\MailMessage;
use Illuminate\Notifications\Notification;
use Jamesmills\LaravelNotificationRateLimit\RateLimitedNotification;
use Jamesmills\LaravelNotificationRateLimit\ShouldRateLimit;

class NotifyUserOfOrderUpdateNotification extends Notification implements ShouldRateLimit
{
    use Queueable;
    use RateLimitedNotification;

...

Publish Config

Everything in this package has opinionated global defaults. However, you can override everything in the config.

Publish it using the command below.

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Jamesmills\LaravelNotificationRateLimit\LaravelNotificationRateLimitServiceProvider"

Options

You can custom settings on an individual Notification level.

Events

By default the NotificationRateLimitReached event will be fired when a Notification is skipped. You can customise this using the event option in the config.

Overding the time the notification is rate limited for

By default an throttled Notification will be throttled for 60 seconds.

Update globally with the rate_limit_seconds config setting.

Update for an individual basis by adding the below to the Notification

// Change rate limit to 1 hour
protected $rateLimitForSeconds = 3600;

Logging skipped notifications

By default this package will log all skipped notifications.

Update globally with the log_skipped_notifications config setting.

Update for an individual basis by adding the below to the Notification

// Do not log skipped notifications
protected $logSkippedNotifications = false;

Skipping uniqueue notifications

By default the Rate Limiter uses a cache key made up of some opinionated defaults. One of these default keys is serialize($notification). You may wish to turn this off.

Update globally with the should_rate_limit_unique_notifications config setting.

Update for an individual basis by adding the below to the Notification

// Do not log skipped notifications
protected $shouldRateLimitUniqueNotifications = false;

Customising the cache key

You may want to customise the parts used in the cache key. You can do this by adding the below to your Notification.

public function rateLimitCustomCacheKeyParts()
{
    return [
        $this->account_id
    ];
}

Testing

composer test

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information what has changed recently.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Security

If you discover any security related issues, please email james@jamesmills.co.uk instead of using the issue tracker.

Credits

• James Mills
• All Contributors

License (Treeware)

This package is 100% free and open-source, under the MIT License (MIT). Use it however you want.

This package is Treeware. If you use it in production, then we ask that you buy the world a tree to thank us for our work. By contributing to the Treeware forest you’ll be creating employment for local families and restoring wildlife habitats.

Inspiration

Inspiration for this package was taken from Rate Limiting Notifications in Laravel by Scott Wakefield

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