Added --sleep-interval option

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py b/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py
index 917f3450e..8e0e386bf 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py
@@ -278,6 +278,9 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
         """Download to a filename using the info from info_dict
         Return True on success and False otherwise
         """
+        sleep_interval = self.params.get('sleepinterval', 0)
+        self.to_screen(u'[download] Sleeping %d seconds...' %sleep_interval)
+        time.sleep(sleep_interval)
         # Check file already present
         if self.params.get('continuedl', False) and os.path.isfile(encodeFilename(filename)) and not self.params.get('nopart', False):
             self.report_file_already_downloaded(filename)