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NAME

LWP::UserAgent::Throttled - Throttle requests to a site

VERSION

Version 0.02

SYNOPSIS

Some sites with REST APIs, such as openstreetmap.org, will blacklist you if you do too many requests.

use LWP::UserAgent::Throttled;
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent::Throttled->new();
$ua->load(5);
print $ua->get('http://www.example.com');
sleep (2);
print $ua->get('http://www.example.com');	# Will wait at least 3 seconds before the GET is sent

SUBROUTINES/METHODS

new

Creates a LWP::UserAgent::Throttled object.

send_request

See LWP::UserAgent.

load

Get/set the number of seconds between each request. The default is one second.

AUTHOR

Nigel Horne, <njh at bandsman.co.uk>

BUGS

SEE ALSO

LWP::UserAgent

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc LWP::Throttle

You can also look for information at:

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2017 Nigel Horne.

This program is released under the following licence: GPL2