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jhurliman / node-rate-limiter

A generic rate limiter for node.js. Useful for API clients, web crawling, or other tasks that need to be throttled
MIT License
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Add support to fire callback immediately when rate limiting #3

Closed stiang closed 11 years ago

stiang commented 11 years ago

This module was perfect for my needs, except I need to alert the client that rate limiting is in effect instead of just delaying the callback, so I added support for this in the RateLimiter. It simply fires the callback with remainingRequests set to -1, so that the fact that rate limiting is in effect can be easily detected from within the callback.

I also took the liberty of adding javascript code wrappers when updating the README.

jhurliman commented 11 years ago

Thanks!