diff --git a/pull_reqs.bat b/pull_reqs.bat
index 0c853cb204127d221ef2fe7220138b86996d3bb1..54f4351b862ff3c2273d86c7678fb871eaceca9b 100644
--- a/pull_reqs.bat
+++ b/pull_reqs.bat
@@ -8,11 +8,11 @@ mkdir "%FBXSDKDIR%"
 mkdir "%FBXSDKPYTHONDIR%"
 
 for /F "tokens=1,2 delims=;" %%i in (reqs_win.txt) do (
-        curl -L -o "%BUILDDIR%\%%i.exe" %%j
+        curl -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:79.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/79.0' -L -o "%BUILDDIR%\%%i.exe" %%j
         "%BUILDDIR%\%%i.exe" /S /D=%BUILDDIR%\%%i
 )
 
-curl -L -o "%BUILDDIR%\patch.py" "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/techtonik/python-patch/master/patch.py"
+curl -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:79.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/79.0' -L -o "%BUILDDIR%\patch.py" "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/techtonik/python-patch/master/patch.py"
 python "%BUILDDIR%\patch.py" patch
 
 move "%BUILDDIR%\fbxsdk\lib\vs2017" "%BUILDDIR%\fbxsdk\lib\all" >nul
diff --git a/pull_reqs.sh b/pull_reqs.sh
index 0e2bee59e6e68aa9aad20899d8b03d4aae6d0bf3..e72fb38c5147e44bf94a307f1248d737566f4ba8 100755
--- a/pull_reqs.sh
+++ b/pull_reqs.sh
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ then
   url=$(grep 'fbx.*fbxsdk' $reqsfile|cut -d';' -f 2)
   file=${url##*/}
   tar="${fbxsdkdir}/${file}"
-  curl -L -o "$tar" $url
+  curl -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:79.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/79.0' -L -o "$tar" $url
   tar -xvzf "$tar" -C "$fbxsdkdir"
   printf "yes\nn\n" |"$fbxsdkdir"/fbx*fbxsdk_linux "$fbxsdkdir" >/dev/null 2>&1
   # patch libfbxsdk.so because it is not linked against libxml2 and libz for some reason  
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ then
   url=$(grep 'fbx.*fbxpythonbindings_linux' $reqsfile|cut -d';' -f 2)
   file=${url##*/}
   tar="${fbxpydir}/${file}"
-  curl -L -o "$tar" $url
+  curl -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:79.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/79.0' -L -o "$tar" $url
   tar -xvzf "$tar" -C "$fbxpydir"
   printf "yes\nn\n"|"$fbxpydir"/fbx*fbxpythonbindings_linux "$fbxpydir" >/dev/null 2>&1