---
title: "Pre-flight inspection — HTTP Client Rate Limits for Laravel | Roundly"
description: "Ask how many requests remain and how long until the next is allowed — without recording a hit — and reset a key’s budget."
url: https://roundly-consulting.com/open-source/docs/http-client-rate-limits-for-laravel/inspection
language: en
---

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# Pre-flight inspection

Ask the limiter about the current state before sending — without recording a hit:

```php
use RoundlyConsulting\HttpClientRateLimits\Facades\RateLimits;

$limit = RateLimits::perMinute(30)->by('acct-1');

$limit->remaining();        // requests still allowed in the window (0 during a server penalty)
$limit->availableIn();      // ms until the next request is allowed (0 = now)
$limit->tooManyAttempts();  // bool: is the window exhausted right now?
```

## Delay at a given timestamp

RateLimit forwards calls to the underlying Limit and Limiter, so you can ask how long you’d have to wait at a specific moment (in milliseconds, from the deferrer’s clock):

```php
$middleware = RateLimits::perHour(6);

$at    = $middleware->getDeferrer()->timestamp();
$delay = $middleware->delayUntilNextRequestInMs($at); // 0 = send now, else wait this many ms

$middleware->isOverMaxAttempts(7); // true
```

## Getters

```php
$limit = RateLimits::perMinute(30)->by('acct-1');

$limit->getKey();               // 'acct-1'
$limit->getMaxAttempts();       // 30
$limit->getTimespan();          // 'minute'
$limit->isUnderMaxAttempts(29); // true
$limit->getStore();             // the Store in use
$limit->getDeferrer();          // the Deferrer in use
$limit->getLimiter();           // the underlying Limiter
```

## Rescheduling instead of waiting

Inspection reads the store, so in queued jobs pair it with a shared store. A job can then release itself instead of waiting:

```php
public function handle(): void
{
    // Needs a shared store (cache, Redis or database) so every run reads the same budget.
    $limit = RateLimits::profile('github')->by("acct:{$this->accountId}");

    if ($limit->tooManyAttempts()) {
        $this->release((int) ceil($limit->availableIn() / 1000));

        return;
    }

    Http::withMiddleware($limit)->get('https://api.github.com/user');
}
```

Inspection methods describe the primary window (plus any adaptive penalty on it) and record nothing; compound windows are evaluated when the request is sent.

## Resetting a limit

Clear the hits a key has recorded — after a plan upgrade, or between two phases of a batch — so the next request goes straight through:

```php
use RoundlyConsulting\HttpClientRateLimits\Facades\RateLimits;

RateLimits::perMinute(60)->by('stripe')->reset();

// A compound limit clears every window it enforces.
RateLimits::perSecond(5)->by('stripe')->alongside(RateLimits::perMinute(100)->by('stripe'))->reset();
```

A reset clears the windows the limit enforces (stripe:minute in the first line), not other windows on the same key, and it doesn’t lift a penalty an adaptive limit recorded from the server’s own Retry-After — the server asked for that wait. It fires RateLimitReset.

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