diff --git a/apiserver/feed.py b/apiserver/feed.py
index d86e4a1..a53874a 100644
--- a/apiserver/feed.py
+++ b/apiserver/feed.py
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ def get_article(url):
     logging.info('Trying our server instead...')
 
     try:
-        r = requests.post(READ_API, data=dict(url=url), timeout=10)
+        r = requests.post(READ_API, data=dict(url=url), timeout=20)
         if r.status_code != 200:
             raise Exception('Bad response code ' + str(r.status_code))
         return r.text
@@ -94,7 +94,6 @@ def update_story(story, is_manual=False):
         return False
 
     if story.get('url', '') and not story.get('text', ''):
-        logging.info('inside if')
         if not get_content_type(story['url']).startswith('text/'):
             logging.info('URL invalid file type / content type:')
             logging.info(story['url'])
diff --git a/apiserver/feeds/manual.py b/apiserver/feeds/manual.py
index d145df4..c23ed70 100644
--- a/apiserver/feeds/manual.py
+++ b/apiserver/feeds/manual.py
@@ -7,12 +7,15 @@ import requests
 import time
 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
 
-USER_AGENT = 'Twitterbot/1.0'
+USER_AGENT = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:77.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/77.0'
 
 def api(route):
     try:
-        headers = {'User-Agent': USER_AGENT}
-        r = requests.get(route, headers=headers, timeout=5)
+        headers = {
+            'User-Agent': USER_AGENT,
+            'X-Forwarded-For': '66.249.66.1',
+        }
+        r = requests.get(route, headers=headers, timeout=10)
         if r.status_code != 200:
             raise Exception('Bad response code ' + str(r.status_code))
         return r.text
diff --git a/readerserver/main.js b/readerserver/main.js
index 4c213ef..242db7a 100644
--- a/readerserver/main.js
+++ b/readerserver/main.js
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ const port = 33843;
 
 const request = require('request');
 const JSDOM = require('jsdom').JSDOM;
-const Readability = require('readability');
+const { Readability } = require('readability');
 
 app.use(express.urlencoded({ extended: true }));
 
@@ -36,7 +36,11 @@ app.post('/', (req, res) => {
 	const requestOptions = {
 		url: url,
 		//headers: {'User-Agent': 'Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.google.com/bot.html)'},
-		headers: {'User-Agent': 'Twitterbot/1.0'},
+		//headers: {'User-Agent': 'Twitterbot/1.0'},
+		headers: {
+			'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:77.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/77.0',
+			'X-Forwarded-For': '66.249.66.1',
+		},
 	};
 
 	console.log('Parse request for:', url);