diff --git a/fetchservers.py b/fetchservers.py
index 1a89af6..e1d2cee 100644
--- a/fetchservers.py
+++ b/fetchservers.py
@@ -79,8 +79,10 @@ async def getsoft(server):
 
     url = 'https://' + server
 
+    user_agent = {'User-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0'}
+
     timeout = aiohttp.ClientTimeout(total=3)
-    async with aiohttp.ClientSession(timeout=timeout) as session:
+    async with aiohttp.ClientSession(timeout=timeout, headers=user_agent) as session:
         for api in apis:
             try:
                 async with session.get(url + api) as response:
diff --git a/getpeers.py b/getpeers.py
index cd60fe8..0146cea 100644
--- a/getpeers.py
+++ b/getpeers.py
@@ -50,7 +50,9 @@ def get_peers(peer):
     
     try:
 
-        response = requests.get('https://' + peer + peers_api, timeout=2)       
+        user_agent = {'User-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0'}
+        
+        response = requests.get('https://' + peer + peers_api, headers = user_agent, timeout=3)       
         
         response_json = response.json()
 
@@ -126,7 +128,9 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
     
     world_peers = []
     
-    res = requests.get('https://' + mastodon_hostname + peers_api)
+    user_agent = {'User-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0'}
+
+    res = requests.get('https://' + mastodon_hostname + peers_api, headers = user_agent, timeout=3)
 
     hostname_peers = res.json()