How to rate limit wayback-machine-downloader:
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Hi, I have the same issue. Both with gem install and docker.io install. This is more of a workaround but it is posable to increase the latency of your Linux OS’s internet connection temporally to solve having your IP address blocked from the Internet Archive and restore your Linux settings back to default to continue using your PC normally.

I recommend doing this in a VM dedicated to wayback-machine-downloader so it wont interfere with your main system. Also you can resume your failed download so you don’t have to restart from scratch by running the same wayback-machine-downloader command again in the same directory where it last quit. Additionally don't have multiple wayback-machine-downloader commands running or else you will get blocked again. Blocks usually last 60 seconds starting from last Internet Archive connection.

Using the tc command:
sudo tc qdisc add dev wlo1 root netem delay 400ms

*Replace wlo1 with your network card of your VM or PC,
*This delays each connection by 400ms, which is slower then what the IA will block you temporally, but still decently quick.

Test you latency though “ping github.com” command to see if it takes longer then 400ms per each connection.

Run the “wayback_machine_downloader http://example.com” command again in the same directory to resume download. It should now successfully run.

When done run “sudo su” then “tc qdisc del dev wlo1 root” to clear any tc settings you have, including the recently made one. Replace wlo1 with your network card

Source: https://github.com/cocoflan/wayback-machine-downloader/issues/1
Date: March 10th 2024