diff --git a/.github/workflows/auto-add-contributors.yml b/.github/workflows/auto-add-contributors.yml
index 706d0693..756bb6a4 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/auto-add-contributors.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/auto-add-contributors.yml
@@ -31,12 +31,12 @@ jobs:
           python -m pip install --upgrade pip
           pip install -r .github/workflows/contributors/requirements.txt       
 
-      - name: Retrieving contributors for commit ${{ github.sha }}
+      - name: Retrieving all contributors from the main branch
         run: |
           echo "🎉 The job was automatically triggered by a ${{ github.event_name }} event."
           echo "🐧 This job is now running on a ${{ runner.os }} server hosted by GitHub!"
           echo "🔎 Getting all contributors from the ${{ github.ref }} branch."
-          PUSHED_CONTRIBUTORS=$(git shortlog -sne --no-merges ${{ github.event.before }}..${{ github.sha }})
+          PUSHED_CONTRIBUTORS=$(git shortlog -sne --no-merges main)
           echo "The contributors are: $PUSHED_CONTRIBUTORS"
       - name: Running Python Script to Update .all-contributorsrc
         run: |
@@ -51,6 +51,11 @@ jobs:
           npx all-contributors generate
           git config --global user.email "github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com"
           git config --global user.name "github-actions[bot]"
+          
+          # Fetch the latest state of the master branch and try to merge
+          git fetch origin main
+          git merge origin/main
+          
           git add -u
           git diff-index --quiet HEAD || git commit -m "Update readme and contributors.qmd with contributors"
-          git push
\ No newline at end of file
+          git push
diff --git a/.github/workflows/contributors/update_contributors.py b/.github/workflows/contributors/update_contributors.py
index 6032034b..2acae10a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/contributors/update_contributors.py
+++ b/.github/workflows/contributors/update_contributors.py
@@ -5,14 +5,13 @@
 from github import Github
 import requests
 
-CONTRIBUTORS_TMP_FILE = 'CONTRIBUTORS_TEMP.txt'
 CONTRIBUTORS_FILE = '.all-contributorsrc'
 
-EXCLUDED_USERS = ['web-flow']
+EXCLUDED_USERS = ['web-flow', 'github-actions[bot]', 'mrdragonbear']
 
 OWNER = "harvard-edge"
 REPO = "cs249r_book"
-BRANCH = "auto_contributor"
+BRANCH = "main"
 
 
 def split_name_email(s):