diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f3bfe8f..26a4cb6 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ furaffinity-dl has only been tested only on Linux, however it should also work o
 ## Usage
 
 ```
-usage: furaffinity-dl.py [-h] [--output OUTPUT] [--cookies COOKIES] [--ua UA] [--start START] [--dont-redownload] [category] [username]
+usage: furaffinity-dl.py [-h] [--output OUTPUT] [--cookies COOKIES] [--ua UA] [--start START] [--dont-redownload] [--interval INTERVAL] [category] [username]
 
 Downloads the entire gallery/scraps/favorites of a furaffinity user
 
@@ -36,6 +36,8 @@ optional arguments:
                         page number to start from
   --dont-redownload, -d
                         Don't redownload files that have already been downloaded
+  --interval INTERVAL, -i INTERVAL
+                        delay between downloading pages
 
 Examples:
  python3 furaffinity-dl.py gallery koul
diff --git a/furaffinity-dl.py b/furaffinity-dl.py
index c0373c0..87c28fe 100755
--- a/furaffinity-dl.py
+++ b/furaffinity-dl.py
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import requests
 import http.cookiejar as cookielib
 import re
 import os
+from time import sleep
 
 '''
 Please refer to LICENSE for licensing conditions.
@@ -30,6 +31,8 @@ parser.add_argument('--cookies', '-c', dest='cookies', type=str, default='', hel
 parser.add_argument('--ua', '-u', dest='ua', type=str, default='Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:68.7) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.7', help="Your browser's useragent, may be required, depending on your luck")
 parser.add_argument('--start', '-s', dest='start', type=str, default=1, help="page number to start from")
 parser.add_argument('--dont-redownload', '-d', const='dont_redownload', action='store_const', help="Don't redownload files that have already been downloaded")
+parser.add_argument('--interval', '-i', dest='interval', type=float, default=0, help="delay between downloading pages")
+
 
 args = parser.parse_args()
 if args.username is None:
@@ -182,6 +185,7 @@ while True:
     # Download all images on the page
     for img in s.findAll('figure'):
         download(img.find('a').attrs.get('href'))
+        sleep(args.interval)
 
     # Favorites galleries use a weird timestamp system, so grab the next "page" from the Next button
     if args.category == 'favorites':