Django REST how to set throttle period to allow one request in 10 minutes?

Question

Documentation says that period should be one of: ('s', 'sec', 'm', 'min', 'h', 'hour', 'd', 'day'). I am curious if I can set period to something like 1/10min?

Answer 1

Looking at the code and documentation you cannot do this 'out of the box'. But I do see the possibility described to make your own custom throttle based on one of the existing one's:

from rest_framework.throttling import AnonRateThrottle


class AnonTenPerTenMinutesThrottle(AnonRateThrottle):
    def parse_rate(self, rate):
        """
        Given the request rate string, return a two tuple of:
        <allowed number of requests>, <period of time in seconds>

        So we always return a rate for 10 request per 10 minutes.

        Args:
            string: rate to be parsed, which we ignore.

        Returns:
            tuple:  <allowed number of requests>, <period of time in seconds>
        """
        return (10, 600)

Answer 2

Basically what XY said is true but it might not work because you still have to put the rate like this:

from rest_framework.throttling import AnonRateThrottle

class AnonTenPerTenMinutesThrottle(AnonRateThrottle):
    

    rate = '1/s' # <<<<< This line is very important
    # You just can enter any rate you want it will directly be overwritten by parse_rate
    

    def parse_rate(self, rate):
        """
        Given the request rate string, return a two tuple of:
        <allowed number of requests>, <period of time in seconds>

        So we always return a rate for 10 request per 10 minutes.

        Args:
            string: rate to be parsed, which we ignore.

        Returns:
            tuple:  <allowed number of requests>, <period of time in seconds>
        """
        return (10, 600) # 10 Requests per 600 seconds (10 minutes)