diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ad5760d..4776d54 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,11 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
+## Unreleased
+### Changed
+- automatic retries now apply to all errors instead of just 429 HTTP responses
+- pinned pyyaml 6.0.1 to avoid issues with cython 3
+
 ## 2.2.1 - 2023-07-17
 ### Fixed
 - Local section links are no longer rendered as broken relative links (e.g. `[this section](#section-header)`)
diff --git a/md2cf/__main__.py b/md2cf/__main__.py
index 9f78287..7db41fb 100644
--- a/md2cf/__main__.py
+++ b/md2cf/__main__.py
@@ -249,6 +249,14 @@ def get_parser():
         help="markdown files or directories to upload to Confluence. Empty for stdin",
         nargs="*",
     )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--max-retries",
+        action="store",
+        dest="max_retries",
+        type=int,
+        default=4,
+        help="number of retry attempts if any API call fails",
+    )
 
     return parser
 
@@ -297,6 +305,7 @@ def main():
         password=args.password,
         token=args.token,
         verify=not args.insecure,
+        max_retries=args.max_retries,
     )
 
     if (args.title or args.page_id) and (
@@ -380,6 +389,7 @@ def main():
     something_went_wrong = False
     error = None
     tui = Md2cfTUI(pages_to_upload)
+
     with tui:
         space_info = confluence.get_space(
             args.space, additional_expansions=["homepage"]
diff --git a/md2cf/api.py b/md2cf/api.py
index dd2a0cb..54ba44a 100644
--- a/md2cf/api.py
+++ b/md2cf/api.py
@@ -25,7 +25,9 @@ def __init__(self, kwargs=None):
 
 
 class MinimalConfluence:
-    def __init__(self, host, username=None, password=None, token=None, verify=True):
+    def __init__(
+        self, host, username=None, password=None, token=None, verify=True, max_retries=4
+    ):
         if token is None:
             if username is None and password is None:
                 raise ValueError(
@@ -47,10 +49,10 @@ def __init__(self, host, username=None, password=None, token=None, verify=True):
 
         adapter = requests.adapters.HTTPAdapter(
             max_retries=urllib3.Retry(
-                total=4,
+                total=max_retries,
                 backoff_factor=1,
                 respect_retry_after_header=True,
-                status_forcelist=[429],
+                allowed_methods=None,
             )
         )
         self.api.mount("http://", adapter)
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 1ceecc7..d26eb3c 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
         "mistune==0.8.4",
         "chardet==5.1.0",
         "requests==2.31.0",
-        "PyYAML==6.0",
+        "PyYAML==6.0.1",
         "gitignorefile==1.1.2",
     ],
     python_requires=">=3.7",