diff --git a/buku b/buku
index 37921d2..9f52d3d 100755
--- a/buku
+++ b/buku
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ titleData = None        # Title fetched from a webpage
 interrupted = False     # Received SIGINT
 DELIMITER = ','         # Delimiter used to store tags in DB
 _VERSION_ = '2.3'       # Program version
+USER_AGENT = ('Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:48.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/48.0')
 
 
 # Crypto globals
@@ -1021,6 +1022,7 @@ def connect_server(url, fullurl=False, forced=False):
 
     urlconn.request('GET', url, None, {
         'Accept-encoding': 'gzip',
+        'User-Agent': USER_AGENT,
         'DNT': '1',
     })
     return (urlconn, urlconn.getresponse())