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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
Metadata downloading is deliberately slow so as to be courteous to the people that run the servers from which the information is scraped. Not to mention that many providers will try to block your IP address if they think you are running a bot.
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Just a question, how does the metadata slowdown work? Is it a fixed amount of time between queries and if so, how long or does it have some other sort of delay built in?
As for the bot thing, I use proxychains for just such a thing.