Disable rate limiter in Laravel?

Question

Is there a way to disable rate limiting on every/individual routes in Laravel?

I'm trying to test an endpoint that receives a lot of requests, but randomly Laravel will start responding with { status: 429, responseText: 'Too Many Attempts.' } for a few hundred requests which makes testing a huge pain.

Answer 1

In app/Http/Kernel.php Laravel has a default throttle limit for all api routes.

protected $middlewareGroups = [     ...     'api' => [         'throttle:60,1',     ], ]; 

Comment or increase it.

Answer 2

You can actually disable only a certain middleware in tests.

use Illuminate\Routing\Middleware\ThrottleRequests;

class YourTest extends TestCase 
{

    protected function setUp()
    {
        parent::setUp();
        $this->withoutMiddleware(
            ThrottleRequests::class
        );
    }
    ...
}

Answer 3

Assuming you are using the API routes then you can change the throttle in app/Http/Kernel.php or take it off entirely. If you need to throttle for the other routes you can register the middleware for them separately.

(example below: throttle - 60 attempts then locked out for 1 minute)

'api' => [
        'throttle:60,1',
        'bindings',
    ],