Put a sleep between downloads for batch-mode downloads

[sevakmaheshr]

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So let's say I am downloading a youtube or udemy playlist. I am not certain who's doing it, but, youtube-dl stops working after some time. I have killall python, and then restart the download process.

What I would like is this: when downloading a playlist ... youtube-dl should automatically insert a "sleep <some small value like say 30s>" between multiple downloads. So, e.g., youtube-dl could sleep for 30s after downloading 5 or 10 videos. And then the download op can continue downloading further.

Why do I need this feature? Because it is my (unproven) belief that the peeps admining the servers are somehow reseting my download connection as soon as they realize that a particular host if "downloading" rather than browsing and watching the videos.

Appreciate if you add this feature.

[dstftw]

There is only sleep between each download available.

--sleep-interval SECONDS         Number of seconds to sleep before each
                                 download when used alone or a lower bound
                                 of a range for randomized sleep before each
                                 download (minimum possible number of
                                 seconds to sleep) when used along with
                                 --max-sleep-interval.
--max-sleep-interval SECONDS     Upper bound of a range for randomized sleep
                                 before each download (maximum possible
                                 number of seconds to sleep). Must only be
                                 used along with --min-sleep-interval.