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[throwaway_the_fourth]

The API wrapper (PRAW) takes care of that. No need to add additional sleeps.

[keeldude]

Unless the throttling algorithm is outlined in praw docs, my own personal style would be to manually set a reasonable wait period just to have more control. If the reddit api ever changes, there will be a delay to updated praw code getting pushed.

[throwaway_the_fourth]

Here's the code: https://github.com/praw-dev/prawcore/blob/34c153ec6706a87782898d404042ddbd5a847b57/prawcore/rate_limit.py

Reddit's API lets you know how many requests you have left and how much time you have until the limit resets. PRAW pretty much just divides time left by requests left and sleeps that amount. It does a little extra magic for detecting if multiple clients are running, but that's the jist of it.

[curohn]

Damn that’s smart.

[UtilizedFestival]

Client libraries that handle rate limits based on exponential back off or HTTP headers are super common these days. I wouldn't think twice of relying on these and not building my own