diff --git a/catalog/search/external.py b/catalog/search/external.py
index 297d6b5a..f3e2d734 100644
--- a/catalog/search/external.py
+++ b/catalog/search/external.py
@@ -57,7 +57,20 @@ class Goodreads:
         results = []
         search_url = f"https://www.goodreads.com/search?page={page}&q={quote_plus(q)}"
         try:
-            r = requests.get(search_url, timeout=3)
+            r = requests.get(
+                search_url,
+                timeout=3,
+                headers={
+                    "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:107.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/107.0",
+                    "Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8",
+                    "Accept-Language": "zh-CN,zh;q=0.8,zh-TW;q=0.7,zh-HK;q=0.5,en-US;q=0.3,en;q=0.2",
+                    "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate",
+                    "Connection": "keep-alive",
+                    "DNT": "1",
+                    "Upgrade-Insecure-Requests": "1",
+                    "Cache-Control": "no-cache",
+                },
+            )
             if r.url.startswith("https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/"):
                 # Goodreads will 302 if only one result matches ISBN
                 site = SiteManager.get_site_by_url(r.url)
diff --git a/mastodon/management/commands/mastodon_sites.py b/mastodon/management/commands/mastodon_sites.py
index 55599d71..8dc9450a 100644
--- a/mastodon/management/commands/mastodon_sites.py
+++ b/mastodon/management/commands/mastodon_sites.py
@@ -21,7 +21,11 @@ class Command(BaseCommand):
         if options["refresh"]:
             for site in MastodonApplication.objects.exclude(disabled=True):
                 allow_multiple_redir = True
-                response = create_app(site.api_domain, allow_multiple_redir)
+                try:
+                    response = create_app(site.api_domain, allow_multiple_redir)
+                except Exception as e:
+                    self.stdout.write(f"Error creating app on {site.api_domain}: {e}")
+                    continue
                 if response.status_code != 200:
                     self.stdout.write(
                         f"Error creating app on {site.api_domain}: {response.status_code}"