[SOLVED] Curl: sleep/delay between requests

Curl: sleep/delay between requests

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.