How to Rate Limit Async Requests in Python
Quick tutorial on how to limit asynchronous python connections when web scraping. This can reduce and balance out web scraping speed to avoid scraping pages too fast and blocking.
Response status code 444 is a rare status code when website unexpectedly closed the connection. In web scraping, this is usually caused by the server identifying the client as a web scraper or a bot and deciding to stop serving content. Repeated 444 status codes can lead to a complete scraper block, so these errors should be addressed ASAP.
To prevent scrapers from being identified see our complete how to scrape without being blocked guide that covers technologies used in identifying web scrapers and how to fortify against them.