I'm trying to limit the number of requests from an IP in case I get too many requests from it.

For example: if I will get more than 50 requests per minute I want to block that IP for 5 minutes.

When I use request.META['REMOTE_ADDR'] I always get the IP of the local host and not the one that sent the request.

1. How can I get the IP of the computer that sent the request?
2. How can I limit that IP to not send more requests for X time?

django-ratelimit will limit the number of requests you receive over a given amount of time.

Install:

pip install django-ratelimit

In your view:

from django_ratelimit.decorators import ratelimit@ratelimit(key='ip', rate='10/m')
def myview(request):
...