diff --git a/opengraph/opengraph.py b/opengraph/opengraph.py
index 9cedb97..50e8834 100644
--- a/opengraph/opengraph.py
+++ b/opengraph/opengraph.py
@@ -47,7 +47,8 @@ def __getattr__(self, name):
     def fetch(self, url):
         """
         """
-        raw = urllib2.urlopen(url)
+        req = urllib2.Request(url, headers={'User-Agent' : "Mozilla"})
+        raw = urllib2.urlopen(req, timeout=15)
         html = raw.read()
         return self.parser(html)
         
@@ -123,4 +124,4 @@ def scrape_url(self, doc):
     def scrape_description(self, doc):
         tag = doc.html.head.findAll('meta', attrs={"name":"description"})
         result = "".join([t['content'] for t in tag])
-        return result
\ No newline at end of file
+        return result