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quite a noob in Python here. For a project, I need to download profile pictures of a list of twitter accounts. I already requested from the API the URLs of the pictures and now I should download them. I was just wondering whether I should make my script sleep and if so how much.

antongiac
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  • Possible duplicate of [Avoid Twitter API limitation with Tweepy](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21308762/avoid-twitter-api-limitation-with-tweepy) – osowskit Jun 11 '19 at 22:50

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It will be faster to use threads. Then, pictures will download concurrently. If you have all the urls in an array you could use a ThreadPool, as in this example

https://markhneedham.com/blog/2018/07/15/python-parallel-download-files-requests/

Jonas
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