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:

• RT: CPAN's request tracker

  http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=LWP-Throttle

• AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation

  http://annocpan.org/dist/LWP-Throttle

• CPAN Ratings

  http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/LWP-Throttle

• Search CPAN

  http://search.cpan.org/dist/LWP-Throttle/

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2017 Nigel Horne.

This program is released under the following licence: GPL2