diff --git a/server/scraper/backoff.py b/server/scraper/backoff.py
index 9199074e..83531ad2 100644
--- a/server/scraper/backoff.py
+++ b/server/scraper/backoff.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 TIMEOUT = 5  # Time before a request times out
 BACKOFF = 0.25  # Try 0.0s, 0.25s, 0.5s, 1s, 2s between requests
-AMOUNT = 1  # Amount of request to make before giving up
+AMOUNT = 5  # Amount of request to make before giving up
 
 
 class TimeoutHTTPAdapter(requests.adapters.HTTPAdapter):