diff --git a/packages/x11/driver/xf86-video-nvidia/scripts/compare_nvidia.py b/packages/x11/driver/xf86-video-nvidia/scripts/compare_nvidia.py
index d3e5b84dfd..43525b8c12 100755
--- a/packages/x11/driver/xf86-video-nvidia/scripts/compare_nvidia.py
+++ b/packages/x11/driver/xf86-video-nvidia/scripts/compare_nvidia.py
@@ -40,7 +40,12 @@ for version in sys.argv[1:]:
 
 for version in versions:
   url = 'http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/' + version + '/README/supportedchips.html'
-  page = requests.get(url)
+
+  headers = {
+    'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/15.0.1',
+  }
+
+  page = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
   tree = html.fromstring(page.content)
 
   # These are the tables we want to use (gpu's supported by the current driver)
diff --git a/packages/x11/driver/xf86-video-nvidia/scripts/make_nvidia_udev.py b/packages/x11/driver/xf86-video-nvidia/scripts/make_nvidia_udev.py
index 722e0def9f..1ce12e00f9 100755
--- a/packages/x11/driver/xf86-video-nvidia/scripts/make_nvidia_udev.py
+++ b/packages/x11/driver/xf86-video-nvidia/scripts/make_nvidia_udev.py
@@ -20,7 +20,12 @@ for line in open(__package__, 'r'):
    break
 
 url = 'http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/' + __version__ + '/README/supportedchips.html'
-page = requests.get(url)
+
+headers = {
+  'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/15.0.1',
+}
+
+page = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
 tree = html.fromstring(page.content)
 
 # These are the tables we want to use (gpu's supported by the current driver)