[SOLVED] Curl: sleep/delay between requests

Issue

I am trying to download flurry exception logs using the following command.

curl --cookie ./flurry.jar -k -L "https://dev.flurry.com/exceptionLogsCsv.do?projectID=49999&versionCut=versionsAll&intervalCut=allTime&direction=1&offset=[0-100:10]" --output "exception#1.csv"

It works fine and it downloads the csv files based on the offset(10,20,30 etc). I would like to insert a delay between each request. Is it possible to do that in CURL?

Solution

Using bash shell (Linux) :

while :
do
    curl --cookie ./flurry.jar -k -L "https://dev.flurry.com/exceptionLogsCsv.do?projectID=49999&versionCut=versionsAll&intervalCut=allTime&direction=1&offset=[0-100:10]" --output "exception#1.csv"
    sleep 5m
done

It is an infinite loop, and the delay is given by the sleep command.

Edit. On Windows machine, you can do this trick instead :

for /L %i in (0,0,0) do (
    curl --cookie ./flurry.jar -k -L "https://dev.flurry.com/exceptionLogsCsv.do?projectID=49999&versionCut=versionsAll&intervalCut=allTime&direction=1&offset=[0-100:10]" --output "exception#1.csv"
    ping -n XX 127.0.0.1>NUL
)

The sleep command is not available on Windows. But you can use ping to "emulate" it. Just replace the XX above with the number of seconds you want to delay.

Answered By - Muhammad Abrar

Answer Checked By - Pedro (WPSolving Volunteer)