updated FAQ entry to recommend using higher download delays

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Pablo Hoffman 2010-08-19 17:59:52 -03:00
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@ -178,13 +178,14 @@ What does the response status code 999 means?
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999 is a custom reponse status code used by Yahoo sites to throttle requests.
Try slowing down the crawling speed by using a download delay in your spider::
Try slowing down the crawling speed by using a download delay of ``2`` (or
higher) in your spider::
class MySpider(CrawlSpider):
name = 'myspider'
download_delay = 1
download_delay = 2
# [ ... rest of the spider code ... ]