diff --git a/bridges/FeedMergeBridge.php b/bridges/FeedMergeBridge.php
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ff13ac9e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bridges/FeedMergeBridge.php
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+<?php
+
+class FeedMergeBridge extends FeedExpander {
+	const MAINTAINER = 'dvikan';
+	const NAME = 'FeedMerge';
+	const URI = 'https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge';
+	const DESCRIPTION = <<<'TEXT'
+This bridge merges two or more feeds into a single feed. Max 10 items are fetched from each feed.
+TEXT;
+
+	const PARAMETERS = [
+		[
+			'feed_name' => [
+				'name' => 'Feed name',
+				'type' => 'text',
+				'exampleValue' => 'rss-bridge/FeedMerger',
+			],
+			'feed_1' => [
+				'name' => 'Feed url',
+				'type' => 'text',
+				'required' => true,
+				'exampleValue' => 'https://lorem-rss.herokuapp.com/feed?unit=day'
+			],
+			'feed_2' => ['name' => 'Feed url', 'type' => 'text'],
+			'feed_3' => ['name' => 'Feed url', 'type' => 'text'],
+			'feed_4' => ['name' => 'Feed url', 'type' => 'text'],
+			'feed_5' => ['name' => 'Feed url', 'type' => 'text'],
+		]
+	];
+
+	public function collectData() {
+		$limit = 10;
+		$feeds = [
+			$this->getInput('feed_1'),
+			$this->getInput('feed_2'),
+			$this->getInput('feed_3'),
+			$this->getInput('feed_4'),
+			$this->getInput('feed_5'),
+		];
+		// Remove empty values
+		$feeds = array_filter($feeds);
+		foreach ($feeds as $feed) {
+			$this->collectExpandableDatas($feed, $limit);
+		}
+	}
+
+	public function getIcon() {
+		return 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/famfamfam-silk@1.0.0/dist/png/folder_feed.png';
+	}
+
+	public function getName() {
+		return $this->getInput('feed_name') ?: 'rss-bridge/FeedMerger';
+	}
+}
diff --git a/bridges/GatesNotesBridge.php b/bridges/GatesNotesBridge.php
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..bf456d26
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bridges/GatesNotesBridge.php
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+<?php
+class GatesNotesBridge extends FeedExpander {
+
+	const MAINTAINER = 'corenting';
+	const NAME = 'Gates Notes';
+	const URI = 'https://www.gatesnotes.com';
+	const DESCRIPTION = 'Returns the newest articles.';
+	const CACHE_TIMEOUT = 21600; // 6h
+
+	protected function parseItem($item){
+		$item = parent::parseItem($item);
+
+		$article_html = getSimpleHTMLDOMCached($item['uri']);
+		if(!$article_html) {
+			$item['content'] .= '<p><em>Could not request ' . $this->getName() . ': ' . $item['uri'] . '</em></p>';
+			return $item;
+		}
+		$article_html = defaultLinkTo($article_html, $this->getURI());
+
+		$top_description = '<p>' . $article_html->find('div.article_top_description', 0)->innertext . '</p>';
+		$hero_image = '<img src=' . $article_html->find('img.article_top_DMT_Image', 0)->getAttribute('data-src') . '>';
+
+		$article_body = $article_html->find('div.TGN_Article_ReadTimeSection', 0);
+		// Convert iframe of Youtube videos to link
+		foreach($article_body->find('iframe') as $found) {
+
+			$iframeUrl = $found->getAttribute('src');
+
+			if ($iframeUrl) {
+				$text = 'Embedded Youtube video, click here to watch on Youtube.com';
+				$found->outertext = '<p><a href="' . $iframeUrl . '">' . $text . '</a></p>';
+			}
+		}
+		// Remove <link> CSS ressources
+		foreach($article_body->find('link') as $found) {
+
+			$linkedRessourceUrl = $found->getAttribute('href');
+
+			if (str_ends_with($linkedRessourceUrl, '.css')) {
+				$found->outertext = '';
+			}
+		}
+		$article_body = sanitize($article_body->innertext);
+
+		$item['content'] = $top_description . $hero_image . $article_body;
+
+		return $item;
+	}
+
+	public function collectData(){
+		$feed = static::URI . '/rss';
+		$this->collectExpandableDatas($feed);
+	}
+}
diff --git a/config.default.ini.php b/config.default.ini.php
index 147a0ca4..c1627aac 100644
--- a/config.default.ini.php
+++ b/config.default.ini.php
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 timezone = "UTC"
 
 [http]
+timeout = 60
 useragent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/74.0.3729.169 Safari/537.36"
 
 [cache]
diff --git a/docs/03_For_Hosts/08_Custom_Configuration.md b/docs/03_For_Hosts/08_Custom_Configuration.md
index d8583a06..afc5eb2e 100644
--- a/docs/03_For_Hosts/08_Custom_Configuration.md
+++ b/docs/03_For_Hosts/08_Custom_Configuration.md
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ __Notice__: If a parameter is not specified in your `config.ini.php` RSS-Bridge
 The configuration file is split into sections:
 
 * [system](#system)
+* [http client](#http client)
 * [cache](#cache)
 * [proxy](#proxy)
 * [authentication](#authentication)
@@ -25,6 +26,8 @@ The configuration file is split into sections:
 
 _System_: This section specifies system specific parameters
 
+_Http client_: This section has http client options
+
 _Cache_: This section is all about the caching behavior of RSS-Bridge
 
 _Proxy_: This section can be used to specify a proxy server for RSS-Bridge to utilize for fetching contents
@@ -98,6 +101,21 @@ Allow users to disable proxy usage for specific requests.
 
 `false` = disabled (default)
 
+## Http client
+
+This section provides the following parameters:
+
+- timeout
+- useragent
+
+### timeout
+
+Default network timeout.
+
+### useragent
+
+Default user agent.
+
 ## Authentication
 
 This section provides following parameters:
diff --git a/lib/contents.php b/lib/contents.php
index e16f72ba..c5c95371 100644
--- a/lib/contents.php
+++ b/lib/contents.php
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ function getContents($url, $header = array(), $opts = array(), $returnHeader = f
 	}
 
 	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, Configuration::getConfig('http', 'useragent'));
+	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, Configuration::getConfig('http', 'timeout'));
 	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_ENCODING, '');
 	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROTOCOLS, CURLPROTO_HTTP | CURLPROTO_HTTPS);
 
@@ -150,7 +151,6 @@ function getContents($url, $header = array(), $opts = array(), $returnHeader = f
 		foreach($opts as $key => $value) {
 			curl_setopt($ch, $key, $value);
 		}
-
 	}
 
 	if(defined('PROXY_URL') && !defined('NOPROXY')) {