How to delay parts of a flow

[JS14]

Hi there,

I have a flow that is using a lot of tokens, and I’m hitting the tpm rate limit with my OpenAI API credentials. I’m wondering if there’s a way I can put in a one or two minute delay between some of my heavier AI nodes in the flow? I couldn’t find this in the docs or the forum.

Right now the flow just fails because of the rate limiting, and I’d rather it pause, and then continue than fail outright.

Thanks,

John

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[cdromain]

Hey John,

You could try using a Run Code node with Python.
I just tried adding such node between a webscraper node and an Ask AI node, using the simple code below that waits fordelayseconds before passingcontentto the next node :

def function(delay, content):
    import time
    time.sleep(int(delay))
    return content

Hope it’s helpful, cheers

[Rithen_Gumloop]

Hey @JS14,

There’s no built-in delay node at the moment, but you can work around it by building a custom node. I’ve shared one with you called “Delay and Pass Through”, you should be able to find it in your node library by searching that name.

Here’s a link where you can try it out: https://www.gumloop.com/pipeline?workbook_id=noyXaeSpEm7yrjMunSH8UP

Just drop it between your nodes, set the wait time in seconds, and it should work.

Let me know if this makes sense and does what you need.