trying to extract confluence subpages, did not have any issues until i decided to also extract the children of these subpages too by using a recursion. Started to hit rate limit exceeded for confluence api. Tried to use sleep commands, that just froze a code for a good minute before hitting the error. I tried to implement delay between requests by using time.sleep(delay) and set it to 0.6 seconds (I played with the number of seconds too, that did not help).
here is the snippet of the code

pages = []
api_request_count = 0
# gets the info about top page subpages ( 2 levels deep) 
def subpages_details(page_id, delay = 0.6):

    global api_request_count 
    api_request_count += 1
    
    page = confluence.get_page_child_by_type(parent_page_id, type='page')
    for subpage in page:
        subpage_id = subpage['id']
        page_info = {
            'id': subpage_id,
            'name': subpage['title'],
            'link': f'{base_url_confluence}{subpage["_links"]["webui"]}',
            'labels': get_labels(subpage_id),
            'subpages': subpages_details(subpage_id, delay)
        }
        pages.append(page_info)
        time.sleep(delay)
    return pages_info

pages_info = subpages_details(parent_page_id)
json_output = json.dumps(pages_info, indent = 4)
print(json_output)

Tried to use sleep (2) command at first, code froze for a minute and got error message again. Tried to use time.sleep(delay) to introduce a delay between each request. set it to 0.6 seconds, still encountered errors.