diff --git a/fimficstats/fimfic-stats.ts b/fimficstats/fimfic-stats.ts
index 9300c9b..2cd4157 100644
--- a/fimficstats/fimfic-stats.ts
+++ b/fimficstats/fimfic-stats.ts
@@ -15,9 +15,11 @@ async function mane() {
 
 	// Loop over IDs to scrape data.
 	for (let id = 551751; id < 552652; id++) {
+		const start_time = Date.now();
+
 		// Set API and HTML status to 200.
-		let api_status = 200;
-		let html_status = 200;
+		let api_status = -1;
+		let html_status = -1;
 
 		// Get data from the API.
 		const api_json = await fetch(`${api_domain}/${id}`, {
@@ -36,7 +38,7 @@ async function mane() {
 
 		// Check for rate limiting.
 		if (api_status === 429) {
-			sleep(5000);
+			sleep(start_time, Date.now(), 5000);
 			id = id - 1;
 			continue;
 		}
@@ -53,9 +55,11 @@ async function mane() {
 		// Checks to see if the story is deleted or unpublished.
 		if (api_status === 404 && html_status === 404) {
 			console.warn("deleted story");
+			sleep(start_time, Date.now(), 1000);
 			continue;
 		} else if (api_status === 404 && html_status === 200) {
 			console.warn("unpublished story");
+			sleep(start_time, Date.now(), 1000);
 			// TODO: Add ID as unpublished and continue without scraping.
 			continue;
 		}
@@ -69,7 +73,9 @@ async function mane() {
 		// Get the ranking and word count rankings from the HTML.
 		const rankings = document('h1:contains("Rankings")').next("ul").find("li");
 		const rating = Number(document(rankings[0]).text().replace(/\D/g, ""));
-		const word_ranking = Number(document(rankings[1]).text().replace(/\D/g, ""));
+		const word_ranking = Number(
+			document(rankings[1]).text().replace(/\D/g, ""),
+		);
 
 		// Get the number of bookshelves and tracking from the HTML.
 		const books = document('h1:contains("Bookshelves")').next("ul").find("li");
@@ -81,15 +87,14 @@ async function mane() {
 		console.log(id, api_json);
 		console.dir(JSON.parse(data!), { depth: null });
 
-		// Sleep for 1 second.
-		sleep(1000);
+		sleep(start_time, Date.now(), 1000);
 	}
 }
 
-function sleep(milliseconds: number) {
-	const date = Date.now();
-	let current_date = null;
-	do {
-		current_date = Date.now();
-	} while (current_date - date < milliseconds);
+function sleep(start_time: number, current_time: number, milliseconds: number) {
+	const elapsed_time = current_time - start_time;
+	console.log(elapsed_time);
+	if (elapsed_time > milliseconds) return;
+	const end_time = milliseconds - elapsed_time + current_time;
+	while (Date.now() < end_time) {}
 }