From c1e63d96abf7117ba5e86b2df4f9e081758b1719 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andreas Demmelbauer <git@notice.at>
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2018 15:10:13 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] add time delay between toots

---
 config-example.json |  1 +
 tootbot.py          | 10 +++++++---
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/config-example.json b/config-example.json
index 670cd9f..71cd81f 100644
--- a/config-example.json
+++ b/config-example.json
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
   },
   "settings": {
     "days": 1,
+    "delay": 5,
     "dryrun": true,
     "databasefilepath": "tootbot.db"
   }
diff --git a/tootbot.py b/tootbot.py
index 3176776..c48e414 100755
--- a/tootbot.py
+++ b/tootbot.py
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ import requests
 import re
 import sqlite3
 import html2text
-from datetime import datetime, date, time, timedelta
+import time
+from datetime import datetime, date, timedelta
 
 
 
@@ -34,6 +35,7 @@ soupuser = config['sources']['soup']['user']
 
 dryrun = config['settings']['dryrun']
 days = config['settings']['days']
+delay = config['settings']['delay']
 
 
 # sqlite db to store processed tweets (and corresponding toots ids)
@@ -157,9 +159,10 @@ for p in reversed(t.entries):
                 print('database execution failed.')
                 print('p.id: ', p.id)
                 print('toot.id: ', toot.id)
-
         else:
             print('Dryrun: not posting toot and not adding it to database')
+        print('waiting %s seconds ...' % delay)
+        time.sleep(delay)
         print('------------------------')
 
 
@@ -287,5 +290,6 @@ for p in reversed(s.entries):
                     print( '--> ',  p.id, ' posted!')
             else:
                 print('Dryrun: not posting toot and not adding it to database')
-
+        print('waiting %s seconds ...' % delay)
+        time.sleep(delay)
         print('------------------------')