Rate limit requests from bots on Gitea

For now this is 240 r/m (4r/s), for Claude, Sogou and Meta user agents.
The values are pretty conservative, I initially had tighter limits.
Let's see how it goes, this is running on Fornax and Draco and right now
we're not hitting the limits.
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2026-08-01 16:33:35 +02:00
parent 8d0c6bc301
commit 051c497054
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@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
# Increase if you have very long User-Agent strings
map_hash_bucket_size 256;
# Bot user agents
map $http_user_agent $bot_name {
default "";
~*ClaudeBot "claude";
~*Sogou "sogou";
~*meta-externalagent "meta-externalagent";
# add more as needed
}
# Decide the rate-limit key (per-IP for each bot in this example)
map $bot_name $bot_limit_key {
default "";
"claude" $binary_remote_addr;
"sogou" $binary_remote_addr;
"meta-externalagent" $binary_remote_addr;
}
# Shared memory zone only non-empty keys are counted
limit_req_zone $bot_limit_key zone=bots:20m rate=240r/m; # 4r/s per IP+bot
# Status code returned when the limit is exceeded
limit_req_status 429;
@@ -17,6 +17,14 @@ tls_cert_for domain do
action :create action :create
end end
# Slow down requests from bots
cookbook_file "#{node["openresty"]["dir"]}/conf.d/rate_limits.conf" do
source "rate_limits.conf"
owner "root"
group "root"
mode "0644"
end
openresty_site domain do openresty_site domain do
template "nginx_conf_web.erb" template "nginx_conf_web.erb"
variables server_name: domain, variables server_name: domain,
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ server {
proxy_intercept_errors on; proxy_intercept_errors on;
# Rate limit for bots. Defined in /etc/openresty/conf.d/rate_limits.conf
limit_req zone=bots burst=10; # allow a larger spike for asset bursts
location ~ ^/(avatars|repo-avatars)/.*$ { location ~ ^/(avatars|repo-avatars)/.*$ {
proxy_buffers 1024 8k; proxy_buffers 1024 8k;
proxy_pass http://_gitea_web; proxy_pass http://_gitea_web;