- # #6989: sleep 3 seconds to avoid 429 errors.
- # should help with #6842.
- self._sleep(3, display_id)
+
+ # Pluralsight tracks multiple sequential calls to ViewClip API and start
+ # to return 429 HTTP errors after some time (see
+ # https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/pull/6989). Moreover it may even lead
+ # to account ban (see https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/6842).
+ # To somewhat reduce the probability of these consequences
+ # we will sleep random amount of time before each call to ViewClip.
+ self._sleep(
+ random.randint(2, 5), display_id,
+ '%(video_id)s: Waiting for %(timeout)s seconds to avoid throttling')
+