There is a setting for that:
DOWNLOAD_DELAYDefault:
0The amount of time (in secs) that the downloader should wait before
downloading consecutive pages from the same website. This can be used
to throttle the crawling speed to avoid hitting servers too hard.
DOWNLOAD_DELAY = 0.25 # 250 ms of delay
Read the docs: https://doc.scrapy.org/en/latest/index.html