youtube-dl does not sleeping at all

[hamzaahmedzia1]

Hi,

I am using youtube-dl version 2016.10.02 installed through pip with python version 2.7.2 GCC 4.9 20140827 on android version 4.04.

I am invoking youtube-dl through another python script with the following options and this manner (fragment shown only)
ydl_opts = { 'sleep': sleepinterval, 'verbose': True, 'useragent' : useragent, 'username' : username, 'password': password, 'abortonerror' : True, 'continue' : True, 'nooverwrites': True, 'playliststart': playliststart, } with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl: ydl.download([courseurl])

What I am observing is that youtube-dl is not sleeping at all for the specified in the sleepinterval variable

For the json key of sleep I have tried variations such as sleep-interval, sleepinterval but nothing can put youtube-dl to sleep between downloading consecutive videos in the playlist. There is a random 3-5 seconds delay to avoid throttling which is the default behavior of youtube-dl.

What option should I use so that youtube-dl sleeps.

Thanks in advance for your time

[dstftw]

It's not sleep but sleep_interval.
Read FAQ, namely part about available options.

[hamzaahmedzia1]

Thanks @dstftw it worked