didip/tollbooth

Health v2 · maintenance only

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2854 stars · 207 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Tollbooth is a Go middleware library for rate-limiting HTTP requests. It supports limiting by remote IP, path, HTTP methods, custom headers, and basic auth usernames, and integrates with standard Go routers.

Use cases

• rate limit http requests in go
• protect api from too many requests
• throttle requests by ip address
• add rate limiting middleware to go http server
• limit requests per second per client
• prevent api abuse in go web app

When to choose

• you need simple, focused HTTP rate limiting in a Go application
• you want to rate-limit by IP, path, method, headers, or basic auth username
• you need a library that works with standard net/http routers and middleware chains

When to avoid

• you need distributed rate limiting across multiple instances backed by a shared store like Redis
• you need rate limiting outside of Go or for non-HTTP protocols
• you need advanced quota or billing features beyond simple throttling

Facets

library · maturity stable

rate-limiting middleware http-server web-development backend apis security go windows cross-platform http-middleware throttling token-bucket api-protection linux macos

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