Comment Comment by bbernard The longer between your requests, the better.If you generate a load greater than what a human would do, this might become problematic. A human wouldn't poke a website forever every 10-15 seconds.The 10-15 seconds is more for web crawlers. Eventually, a crawler will run out of pages to crawl on a website, so it will stop sending requests to it.Personally, I would stick to the 3 minutes delay. But it depends on what type of website you're scraping :) parent bbernard 9 years ago
If you generate a load greater than what a human would do, this might become problematic. A human wouldn't poke a website forever every 10-15 seconds.
The 10-15 seconds is more for web crawlers. Eventually, a crawler will run out of pages to crawl on a website, so it will stop sending requests to it.
Personally, I would stick to the 3 minutes delay. But it depends on what type of website you're scraping :)