diff --git a/source/net/yacy/cora/util/Html2Image.java b/source/net/yacy/cora/util/Html2Image.java
index 3821f6b42..e845a8a0f 100644
--- a/source/net/yacy/cora/util/Html2Image.java
+++ b/source/net/yacy/cora/util/Html2Image.java
@@ -71,17 +71,22 @@ public class Html2Image {
      * @param destination
      * @return
      */
-    public static boolean writeWkhtmltopdf(String url, String proxy, File destination) {
-        boolean success = writeWkhtmltopdfInternal(url, proxy, destination);
+    public static boolean writeWkhtmltopdf(String url, String proxy, String userAgent, File destination) {
+        boolean success = writeWkhtmltopdfInternal(url, proxy, destination, null, false);
         if (success) return true;
         if (proxy == null) return false;
         ConcurrentLog.warn("Html2Image", "trying to load without proxy: " + url);
-        return writeWkhtmltopdfInternal(url, null, destination);
+        return writeWkhtmltopdfInternal(url, null, destination, userAgent, true);
     }
     
-    private static boolean writeWkhtmltopdfInternal(String url, String proxy, File destination) {
+    private static boolean writeWkhtmltopdfInternal(String url, String proxy, File destination, String userAgent, boolean ignoreErrors) {
         final File wkhtmltopdf = wkhtmltopdfMac.exists() ? wkhtmltopdfMac : wkhtmltopdfDebian;
-        String commandline = wkhtmltopdf.getAbsolutePath() + " -q --title " + url + (proxy == null ? " " : " --proxy " + proxy + " ") + (OS.isMacArchitecture ? "--load-error-handling ignore " : "--ignore-load-errors ") + url + " " + destination.getAbsolutePath();
+        String commandline =
+                wkhtmltopdf.getAbsolutePath() + " -q --title " + url +
+                (userAgent == null ? "" : "--custom-header 'User-Agent' '" + userAgent + "' --custom-header-propagation") + 
+                (proxy == null ? " " : " --proxy " + proxy + " ") +
+                (ignoreErrors ? (OS.isMacArchitecture ? "--load-error-handling ignore " : "--ignore-load-errors ") : "") +
+                url + " " + destination.getAbsolutePath();
         try {
             List<String> message;
             if (!usexvfb) {
diff --git a/source/net/yacy/crawler/data/Snapshots.java b/source/net/yacy/crawler/data/Snapshots.java
index fb9fe3f34..394d14f73 100644
--- a/source/net/yacy/crawler/data/Snapshots.java
+++ b/source/net/yacy/crawler/data/Snapshots.java
@@ -70,14 +70,14 @@ public class Snapshots {
      * @param proxy - a string of the form 'http://<host>:<port>
      * @return
      */
-    public File downloadPDFSnapshot(final DigestURL url, final int depth, final Date date, boolean replaceOld, String proxy) {
+    public File downloadPDFSnapshot(final DigestURL url, final int depth, final Date date, boolean replaceOld, String proxy, String userAgent) {
         Collection<File> oldPaths = findPaths(url, depth);
         if (replaceOld) {
             for (File oldPath: oldPaths) oldPath.delete();
         }
         File path = definePath(url, "pdf", depth, date);
         path.getParentFile().mkdirs();
-        boolean success = Html2Image.writeWkhtmltopdf(url.toNormalform(true), proxy, path);
+        boolean success = Html2Image.writeWkhtmltopdf(url.toNormalform(true), proxy, userAgent, path);
         return success ? path : null;
     }
     
diff --git a/source/net/yacy/repository/LoaderDispatcher.java b/source/net/yacy/repository/LoaderDispatcher.java
index bdfad4ed2..566eca773 100644
--- a/source/net/yacy/repository/LoaderDispatcher.java
+++ b/source/net/yacy/repository/LoaderDispatcher.java
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ public final class LoaderDispatcher {
             String ext = MultiProtocolURL.getFileExtension(file).toLowerCase();
             boolean extok = ext.length() == 0 || file.length() <= 1 || htmlParser.htmlExtensionsSet.contains(ext);
             if (depthok && extok) {
-                File snapshotFile = sb.snapshots.downloadPDFSnapshot(request.url(), request.depth(), new Date(), crawlProfile.snapshotReplaceold(), sb.getConfigBool("isTransparentProxy", false) ? "http://127.0.0.1:" + sb.getConfigInt("port", 8090) : null);
+                File snapshotFile = sb.snapshots.downloadPDFSnapshot(request.url(), request.depth(), new Date(), crawlProfile.snapshotReplaceold(), sb.getConfigBool("isTransparentProxy", false) ? "http://127.0.0.1:" + sb.getConfigInt("port", 8090) : null, agent.userAgent);
                 log.info("SNAPSHOT - " + (snapshotFile == null ? "could not generate snapshot for " + request.url().toNormalform(true) : "wrote " + snapshotFile + " for " + request.url().toNormalform(true)));
             } else {
                 //if (!depthok) log.warn("SNAPSHOT: depth not ok, " + (crawlProfile == null ? "profile = null" : "entry.depth() = " + request.depth() + ", profile.snapshotMaxdepth() = " + crawlProfile.snapshotMaxdepth()));