title: How to limit download rate of HTTP requests in requests python library?
body: <p>Is it possible to limit the download rate of GET requests using the <code>requests</code> Python library? For instance, with a command like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>r = requests.get('https://stackoverflow.com/')
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>...is it possible to limit the download rate? I'm hoping for something similar to this <code>wget</code> command:</p>
  
  <pre><code>wget --limit-rate=20k https://stackoverflow.com/
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I know it's <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/456649/throttling-with-urllib2">possible</a> with <code>urllib2</code>. I'm asking specifically about the <code>requests</code> library.</p>