Autotask Rate Limiting Utilities

This package provides utilities for rate limiting Autotask API calls using Upstash Redis. It includes:

• Rate limiting middleware for Next.js API routes
• Autotask-specific rate monitoring
• Fetch utilities for making API calls
• Environment variable configuration

Installation

npm install @your-org/autotask-rate-limiter
# or
pnpm add @your-org/autotask-rate-limiter

Usage

1. Set up your environment variables:

cp .env.example .env
# Edit .env with your values

2. Use the utilities in your API routes:

// app/api/your-route/route.ts
import { NextRequest } from 'next/server';
import { withAutotaskRateLimit } from '@your-org/autotask-rate-limiter';

export async function POST(request: NextRequest) {
  return withAutotaskRateLimit(request, async () => {
    // Your API logic here
  });
}

Features

• Automatic rate limiting using Upstash Redis
• Autotask-specific usage monitoring
• Middleware for Next.js API routes
• TypeScript support
• Configurable rate limits
• Backoff strategy for API calls

API

Rate Limiter

import { rateLimiter } from '@your-org/autotask-rate-limiter';

// Check rate limit
const { success, limit, remaining } = await rateLimiter.checkRateLimit(identifier);

Autotask Rate Monitor

import { checkAutotaskLimits, applyAutotaskBackoff } from '@your-org/autotask-rate-limiter';

// Check Autotask limits
const { success, estimatedUsage } = await checkAutotaskLimits(identifier);

// Apply backoff if needed
await applyAutotaskBackoff();

Fetch Utilities

import { fetchAutotaskData } from '@your-org/autotask-rate-limiter';

// Make API calls
const data = await fetchAutotaskData(
  'YourEndpoint/query',
  filter,
  headers
);

Configuration

The package requires the following environment variables:

• UPSTASH_REDIS_REST_URL
• UPSTASH_REDIS_REST_TOKEN
• AUTOTASK_API_INTEGRATION_CODE
• AUTOTASK_USERNAME
• AUTOTASK_PASSWORD
• AUTOTASK_API_URL (Optional): You can optionally provide the full base URL for the Autotask REST API, overriding the zone-based default.

Prerequisites

To use these utilities within your Next.js project, ensure the following prerequisites are met:

1. Environment Variables

The following environment variables must be defined in your project's .env file (e.g., .env):

• UPSTASH_REDIS_REST_URL: The REST URL for your Upstash Redis instance (used for rate limiting).
• UPSTASH_REDIS_REST_TOKEN: The access token for your Upstash Redis instance.
• AUTOTASK_API_INTEGRATION_CODE: Your Autotask API integration code.
• AUTOTASK_USERNAME: The username for Autotask API access.
• AUTOTASK_SECRET: The secret/password for Autotask API access.
• AUTOTASK_API_URL (Optional): You can optionally provide the full base URL for the Autotask REST API, overriding the zone-based default.

2. Required Packages

Ensure the following packages are installed in your main Next.js project's package.json dependencies:

pnpm install @upstash/ratelimit @upstash/redis
# or
npm install @upstash/ratelimit @upstash/redis
# or
yarn add @upstash/ratelimit @upstash/redis

Note: These utilities were originally developed for a Next.js environment and rely on Next.js types and runtime features (like NextRequest, NextResponse, and the fetch API). Ensure your project environment is compatible.

Usage

You can now import and use the functions directly from this directory using relative paths or path aliases configured in your tsconfig.json.

Example (tsconfig.json path alias):

// tsconfig.json
{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "paths": {
      "@/autotask-utils/*": ["./autotask-utils/*"]
      // ... other paths
    }
    // ... other options
  }
}

Example Import:

import { checkAutotaskLimits } from "@/autotask-utils/autotask-rate-monitor";
import { fetchAutotaskData } from "@/autotask-utils/fetch";

async function someAction() {
  const rateCheck = await checkAutotaskLimits("some-identifier");
  // ... use utilities
}