trying different approach

app/helpers/fetchWrapper.js

@@ -6,9 +6,14 @@ const {
   SCRAPER_API_BASE_URL
 } = require("../config/appConfig");
 
-const timeout = (ms) => {
+const async timeout = (method, ms) => {
     console.error("Waiting for ", ms);
-    return new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, ms));
+    return new Promise(resolve => { 
+      setTimeout(() => {
+        await method();
+        resolve();
+      }, ms); 
+    });
 }
 
 const fetch = async (url, options = {}) => {
@@ -27,8 +32,7 @@ const fetch = async (url, options = {}) => {
     ? `${SCRAPER_API_BASE_URL}?api_key=${SCRAPER_API_KEY}&url=${urlToFetchThroughAPI}`
     : url;
   const randomPauseMS = Math.floor(Math.random() * Math.floor(1500)) + 500;
-  await timeout(randomPauseMS);
-  return nodeFetch(urlAdaptedForScraping, newOptions);
+  return timeout(() => {  nodeFetch(urlAdaptedForScraping, newOptions); }, randomPauseMS); 
 };
 
 module.exports = fetch;