Inserting a sleep between each fetch request
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Description
I would like to be nice to the Wayback Machine and space out my requests.
An option to insert a delay of x seconds between fetching each page would allow me to reduce the load.
It looks like the Wayback Machine does have a rate limiter, which causes the current non-delayed fetch to grind to a halt.
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The issue does not name files or tests. Start by locating the command-line option parsing and the loop that fetches archived pages; add a configurable delay between requests, then verify that the option spaces successive fetches without changing other download behavior.
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- Tech stack
- python
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- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
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- 1-2 days
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