diff --git a/scripts/scriptutil.py b/scripts/scriptutil.py
index 33a67769a..f82c2e257 100644
--- a/scripts/scriptutil.py
+++ b/scripts/scriptutil.py
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
 import os
 import re
 import sys
+import time
 import json
 import codecs
 
@@ -39,6 +40,7 @@ class ComicListUpdater(object):
     def __init__(self, name):
         self.json = name.replace(".py", ".json")
         self.session = requests.Session()
+        self.sleep = 0
 
     def get_url(self, url, expand=True):
         """Get an HTML page and parse it with LXML."""
@@ -47,6 +49,8 @@ class ComicListUpdater(object):
             data = html.document_fromstring(get_page(url, self.session).text)
             if expand:
                 data.make_links_absolute(url)
+            if self.sleep > 0:
+                time.sleep(self.sleep)
             return data
         except IOError as msg:
             print("ERROR:", msg, file=sys.stderr)
diff --git a/scripts/smackjeeves.py b/scripts/smackjeeves.py
index 10f01424d..690604729 100755
--- a/scripts/smackjeeves.py
+++ b/scripts/smackjeeves.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 # Copyright (C) 2004-2008 Tristan Seligmann and Jonathan Jacobs
 # Copyright (C) 2012-2014 Bastian Kleineidam
-# Copyright (C) 2015-2016 Tobias Gruetzmacher
+# Copyright (C) 2015-2017 Tobias Gruetzmacher
 """
 Script to get a list of smackjeeves.com comics and save the info in a JSON file
 for further processing.
@@ -115,6 +115,10 @@ class SmackJeevesUpdater(ComicListUpdater):
         "Razor",
     )
 
+    def __init__(self, name):
+        super(SmackJeevesUpdater, self).__init__(name)
+        self.sleep = 2
+
     def handle_url(self, url):
         """Parse one search result page."""
         data = self.get_url(url)