diff --git a/graphql/documents/data/config.graphql b/graphql/documents/data/config.graphql
index e36594c50..13a15e48b 100644
--- a/graphql/documents/data/config.graphql
+++ b/graphql/documents/data/config.graphql
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ fragment ConfigGeneralData on ConfigGeneralResult {
   logLevel
   logAccess
   excludes
+  scraperUserAgent
 }
 
 fragment ConfigInterfaceData on ConfigInterfaceResult {
diff --git a/graphql/schema/types/config.graphql b/graphql/schema/types/config.graphql
index 8054798ea..24a4334dd 100644
--- a/graphql/schema/types/config.graphql
+++ b/graphql/schema/types/config.graphql
@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ input ConfigGeneralInput {
   logAccess: Boolean!
   """Array of file regexp to exclude from Scan"""
   excludes: [String!]
+  """Scraper user agent string"""
+  scraperUserAgent: String
 }
 
 type ConfigGeneralResult {
@@ -59,6 +61,8 @@ type ConfigGeneralResult {
   logAccess: Boolean!
   """Array of file regexp to exclude from Scan"""
   excludes: [String!]!
+  """Scraper user agent string"""
+  scraperUserAgent: String
 }
 
 input ConfigInterfaceInput {
diff --git a/pkg/api/resolver_mutation_configure.go b/pkg/api/resolver_mutation_configure.go
index 5cec957b1..f3020fdc8 100644
--- a/pkg/api/resolver_mutation_configure.go
+++ b/pkg/api/resolver_mutation_configure.go
@@ -76,6 +76,10 @@ func (r *mutationResolver) ConfigureGeneral(ctx context.Context, input models.Co
 		config.Set(config.Exclude, input.Excludes)
 	}
 
+	if input.ScraperUserAgent != nil {
+		config.Set(config.ScraperUserAgent, input.ScraperUserAgent)
+	}
+
 	if err := config.Write(); err != nil {
 		return makeConfigGeneralResult(), err
 	}
diff --git a/pkg/api/resolver_query_configuration.go b/pkg/api/resolver_query_configuration.go
index d9865f1c7..abee07ecb 100644
--- a/pkg/api/resolver_query_configuration.go
+++ b/pkg/api/resolver_query_configuration.go
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ func makeConfigGeneralResult() *models.ConfigGeneralResult {
 	maxTranscodeSize := config.GetMaxTranscodeSize()
 	maxStreamingTranscodeSize := config.GetMaxStreamingTranscodeSize()
 
+	scraperUserAgent := config.GetScraperUserAgent()
+
 	return &models.ConfigGeneralResult{
 		Stashes:                   config.GetStashPaths(),
 		DatabasePath:              config.GetDatabasePath(),
@@ -46,6 +48,7 @@ func makeConfigGeneralResult() *models.ConfigGeneralResult {
 		LogLevel:                  config.GetLogLevel(),
 		LogAccess:                 config.GetLogAccess(),
 		Excludes:                  config.GetExcludes(),
+		ScraperUserAgent:          &scraperUserAgent,
 	}
 }
 
@@ -59,7 +62,6 @@ func makeConfigInterfaceResult() *models.ConfigInterfaceResult {
 	cssEnabled := config.GetCSSEnabled()
 	language := config.GetLanguage()
 
-
 	return &models.ConfigInterfaceResult{
 		SoundOnPreview:      &soundOnPreview,
 		WallShowTitle:       &wallShowTitle,
diff --git a/pkg/manager/config/config.go b/pkg/manager/config/config.go
index e5fa50f51..fa0a70b03 100644
--- a/pkg/manager/config/config.go
+++ b/pkg/manager/config/config.go
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ const Password = "password"
 
 const Database = "database"
 
-const ScrapersPath = "scrapers_path"
 const Exclude = "exclude"
 
 const MaxTranscodeSize = "max_transcode_size"
@@ -32,6 +31,10 @@ const Host = "host"
 const Port = "port"
 const ExternalHost = "external_host"
 
+// scraping options
+const ScrapersPath = "scrapers_path"
+const ScraperUserAgent = "scraper_user_agent"
+
 // i18n
 const Language = "language"
 
@@ -115,6 +118,10 @@ func GetScrapersPath() string {
 	return viper.GetString(ScrapersPath)
 }
 
+func GetScraperUserAgent() string {
+	return viper.GetString(ScraperUserAgent)
+}
+
 func GetHost() string {
 	return viper.GetString(Host)
 }
diff --git a/pkg/scraper/config.go b/pkg/scraper/config.go
index bfeb1e1bc..4e1a84557 100644
--- a/pkg/scraper/config.go
+++ b/pkg/scraper/config.go
@@ -139,6 +139,10 @@ func (c *scrapeSceneByURLConfig) resolveFn() {
 	}
 }
 
+type scraperDebugOptions struct {
+	PrintHTML bool `yaml:"printHTML"`
+}
+
 type scraperConfig struct {
 	ID                  string
 	Name                string                        `yaml:"name"`
@@ -148,8 +152,9 @@ type scraperConfig struct {
 	SceneByFragment     *sceneByFragmentConfig        `yaml:"sceneByFragment"`
 	SceneByURL          []*scrapeSceneByURLConfig     `yaml:"sceneByURL"`
 
-	StashServer   *stashServer  `yaml:"stashServer"`
-	XPathScrapers xpathScrapers `yaml:"xPathScrapers"`
+	DebugOptions  *scraperDebugOptions `yaml:"debug"`
+	StashServer   *stashServer         `yaml:"stashServer"`
+	XPathScrapers xpathScrapers        `yaml:"xPathScrapers"`
 }
 
 func loadScraperFromYAML(path string) (*scraperConfig, error) {
diff --git a/pkg/scraper/image.go b/pkg/scraper/image.go
index c44295100..4cdd691c1 100644
--- a/pkg/scraper/image.go
+++ b/pkg/scraper/image.go
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 	"time"
 
+	"github.com/stashapp/stash/pkg/manager/config"
 	"github.com/stashapp/stash/pkg/models"
 	"github.com/stashapp/stash/pkg/utils"
 )
@@ -52,8 +53,18 @@ func getImage(url string) (*string, error) {
 		Timeout: imageGetTimeout,
 	}
 
+	req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	userAgent := config.GetScraperUserAgent()
+	if userAgent != "" {
+		req.Header.Set("User-Agent", userAgent)
+	}
+
 	// assume is a URL for now
-	resp, err := client.Get(url)
+	resp, err := client.Do(req)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
diff --git a/pkg/scraper/xpath.go b/pkg/scraper/xpath.go
index 9f063454c..b3eb25777 100644
--- a/pkg/scraper/xpath.go
+++ b/pkg/scraper/xpath.go
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 package scraper
 
 import (
+	"bytes"
 	"errors"
+	"net/http"
 	"net/url"
 	"reflect"
 	"regexp"
@@ -10,11 +12,17 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/antchfx/htmlquery"
 	"golang.org/x/net/html"
+	"golang.org/x/net/html/charset"
 
 	"github.com/stashapp/stash/pkg/logger"
+	"github.com/stashapp/stash/pkg/manager/config"
 	"github.com/stashapp/stash/pkg/models"
 )
 
+// Timeout for the scrape http request. Includes transfer time. May want to make this
+// configurable at some point.
+const scrapeGetTimeout = time.Second * 30
+
 type commonXPathConfig map[string]string
 
 func (c commonXPathConfig) applyCommon(src string) string {
@@ -197,7 +205,7 @@ func (c xpathScraperAttrConfig) applySubScraper(value string) string {
 		return value
 	}
 
-	doc, err := htmlquery.LoadURL(value)
+	doc, err := loadURL(value, nil)
 
 	if err != nil {
 		logger.Warnf("Error getting URL '%s' for sub-scraper: %s", value, err.Error())
@@ -504,6 +512,42 @@ func (r xPathResults) setKey(index int, key string, value string) xPathResults {
 	return r
 }
 
+func loadURL(url string, c *scraperConfig) (*html.Node, error) {
+	client := &http.Client{
+		Timeout: scrapeGetTimeout,
+	}
+	req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	userAgent := config.GetScraperUserAgent()
+	if userAgent != "" {
+		req.Header.Set("User-Agent", userAgent)
+	}
+
+	resp, err := client.Do(req)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	defer resp.Body.Close()
+
+	r, err := charset.NewReader(resp.Body, resp.Header.Get("Content-Type"))
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	ret, err := html.Parse(r)
+
+	if err == nil && c != nil && c.DebugOptions != nil && c.DebugOptions.PrintHTML {
+		var b bytes.Buffer
+		html.Render(&b, ret)
+		logger.Infof("loadURL (%s) response: \n%s", url, b.String())
+	}
+
+	return ret, err
+}
+
 func scrapePerformerURLXpath(c scraperTypeConfig, url string) (*models.ScrapedPerformer, error) {
 	scraper := c.scraperConfig.XPathScrapers[c.Scraper]
 
@@ -511,7 +555,7 @@ func scrapePerformerURLXpath(c scraperTypeConfig, url string) (*models.ScrapedPe
 		return nil, errors.New("xpath scraper with name " + c.Scraper + " not found in config")
 	}
 
-	doc, err := htmlquery.LoadURL(url)
+	doc, err := loadURL(url, c.scraperConfig)
 
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
@@ -527,7 +571,7 @@ func scrapeSceneURLXPath(c scraperTypeConfig, url string) (*models.ScrapedScene,
 		return nil, errors.New("xpath scraper with name " + c.Scraper + " not found in config")
 	}
 
-	doc, err := htmlquery.LoadURL(url)
+	doc, err := loadURL(url, c.scraperConfig)
 
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
@@ -551,7 +595,7 @@ func scrapePerformerNamesXPath(c scraperTypeConfig, name string) ([]*models.Scra
 	u := c.QueryURL
 	u = strings.Replace(u, placeholder, escapedName, -1)
 
-	doc, err := htmlquery.LoadURL(u)
+	doc, err := loadURL(u, c.scraperConfig)
 
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
diff --git a/ui/v2.5/src/components/Settings/SettingsConfigurationPanel.tsx b/ui/v2.5/src/components/Settings/SettingsConfigurationPanel.tsx
index 22b0942d8..8e46cacfb 100644
--- a/ui/v2.5/src/components/Settings/SettingsConfigurationPanel.tsx
+++ b/ui/v2.5/src/components/Settings/SettingsConfigurationPanel.tsx
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ export const SettingsConfigurationPanel: React.FC = () => {
   const [logLevel, setLogLevel] = useState<string>("Info");
   const [logAccess, setLogAccess] = useState<boolean>(true);
   const [excludes, setExcludes] = useState<string[]>([]);
+  const [scraperUserAgent, setScraperUserAgent] = useState<string | undefined>(undefined);
 
   const { data, error, loading } = StashService.useConfiguration();
 
@@ -44,7 +45,8 @@ export const SettingsConfigurationPanel: React.FC = () => {
     logOut,
     logLevel,
     logAccess,
-    excludes
+    excludes,
+    scraperUserAgent
   });
 
   useEffect(() => {
@@ -66,6 +68,7 @@ export const SettingsConfigurationPanel: React.FC = () => {
       setLogLevel(conf.general.logLevel);
       setLogAccess(conf.general.logAccess);
       setExcludes(conf.general.excludes);
+      setScraperUserAgent(conf.general.scraperUserAgent ?? undefined);
     }
   }, [data, error]);
 
@@ -289,6 +292,22 @@ export const SettingsConfigurationPanel: React.FC = () => {
 
       <hr />
 
+      <Form.Group id="generated-path">
+        <h6>Scraping</h6>
+        <Form.Control
+          className="col col-sm-6 text-input"
+          defaultValue={scraperUserAgent}
+          onChange={(e: React.FormEvent<HTMLInputElement>) =>
+            setScraperUserAgent(e.currentTarget.value)
+          }
+        />
+        <Form.Text className="text-muted">
+          User-Agent string used during scrape http requests
+        </Form.Text>
+      </Form.Group>
+
+      <hr />
+
       <Form.Group>
         <h4>Authentication</h4>
         <Form.Group id="username">
diff --git a/ui/v2/src/components/Settings/SettingsConfigurationPanel.tsx b/ui/v2/src/components/Settings/SettingsConfigurationPanel.tsx
index ce3de1c17..30638fc88 100644
--- a/ui/v2/src/components/Settings/SettingsConfigurationPanel.tsx
+++ b/ui/v2/src/components/Settings/SettingsConfigurationPanel.tsx
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ export const SettingsConfigurationPanel: FunctionComponent<IProps> = (props: IPr
   const [logLevel, setLogLevel] = useState<string>("Info");
   const [logAccess, setLogAccess] = useState<boolean>(true);
   const [excludes, setExcludes] = useState<(string)[]>([]);
+  const [scraperUserAgent, setScraperUserAgent] = useState<string | undefined>(undefined);
 
   const { data, error, loading } = StashService.useConfiguration();
 
@@ -48,7 +49,7 @@ export const SettingsConfigurationPanel: FunctionComponent<IProps> = (props: IPr
     logLevel,
     logAccess,
     excludes,
-
+    scraperUserAgent,
   });
 
   useEffect(() => {
@@ -67,6 +68,7 @@ export const SettingsConfigurationPanel: FunctionComponent<IProps> = (props: IPr
       setLogLevel(conf.general.logLevel);
       setLogAccess(conf.general.logAccess);
       setExcludes(conf.general.excludes);
+      setScraperUserAgent(conf.general.scraperUserAgent);
     }
   }, [data, error]);
 
@@ -229,6 +231,18 @@ export const SettingsConfigurationPanel: FunctionComponent<IProps> = (props: IPr
         </FormGroup>
       <Divider />
 
+      <FormGroup>
+        <H4>Scraping</H4>
+        <FormGroup
+          label="Scraper User-Agent string"
+          helperText="User-Agent string used during scrape http requests"
+        >
+          <InputGroup value={scraperUserAgent} onChange={(e: any) => setScraperUserAgent(e.target.value)} />
+        </FormGroup>
+      </FormGroup>
+
+      <Divider />
+
       <FormGroup>
         <H4>Authentication</H4>
         <FormGroup