How to Introduce Delay Between API Calls in Hugo Templates?

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Hello Hugo community,

I’m making multiple API calls using the GetJSON function in my templates. To avoid hitting the rate limits of the API, I need to introduce a delay between the calls.

I’ve explored using the sleep function, but it seems that it’s not available in Hugo’s templating language.

Is there a recommended way or workaround to introduce a sleep or delay between API calls in Hugo templates? Any guidance or examples would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance for your help!

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Please use resources.GetRemote instead, and let us know if you’re still having problems.

We added a re-try to resources.GetRemote in #11326 to address a similar issue, #11312.

I imagine we will deprecate both data.GetJSON and data.GetCSV at some point.

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Thanks!. I changed the code to use resources.GetRemote and I no longer get rate limit errors.

The error I’m getting now is :

Error calling resources.GetRemote: context deadline exceeded (Client.Timeout exceeded while awaiting headers)

Any suggestion on how to approach this?

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The client timeout is (hardcoded) to 1 minute, but that’s per request, so should be … plenty?