It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/OmarAhmad007 on 2025-03-31 13:59:15.

Today, I began using Gallery-DL to download photos from public profiles, but have run into restriction issues from a social media platform. In order to avoid this restriction, I wish to add delays to Gallery-DL's activity while it's doing its thing. The following are two command line options to include delays in Gallery-DL's activity:

1. "--sleep"

2. "--sleep-request"

While these are explained on this webpage: (https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/blob/master/docs/options.md) , I do not understand the difference between them. Could someone please explain their difference to me so I can see which is useful for my purpose?

Thanks!