What is the Best Way to Make a Post Request with a 5 Second Wait Between Each Value in Node.js?

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Hi everyone,
How can I create a Node.js step that makes a post request to an array but with 5 second wait between each value in an array?

The reason is not to get error for rate limitation on the 3rd party API.

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Basically for each item in the array sends the request and wait a few seconds before proceeding to the next one?

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Exactly

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I know how to build it but I don’t know how to put the delay between each item in the array

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There’s a very simple await delay() I’ve used in the past, I’ll send it soon (you can also ask chat GPT I’m sure they’ll give a working example)

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I’ve used this before

const delay = (ms) => new Promise((res) => setTimeout(res, ms));
await delay(5000); // 5s
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I appreciate it.
I just tried and it works like a magic

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check out the code formatting in Discourse - it includes the HTML tags (making the code unusable)

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Good catch! Will fix