diff --git a/boot.php b/boot.php
index 5ef24f4944..bea1fc74c9 100644
--- a/boot.php
+++ b/boot.php
@@ -865,6 +865,10 @@ if(! class_exists('App')) {
 			$this->performance["markstart"] = microtime(true) - $this->performance["markstart"] - $this->performance["marktime"];
 		}
 
+		function get_useragent() {
+			return(FRIENDICA_PLATFORM." ".FRIENDICA_VERSION."-".DB_UPDATE_VERSION."; ".$this->get_baseurl());
+		}
+
 	}
 }
 
diff --git a/include/bbcode.php b/include/bbcode.php
index 017673423b..25d60647f3 100644
--- a/include/bbcode.php
+++ b/include/bbcode.php
@@ -674,10 +674,12 @@ function bb_RemovePictureLinks($match) {
 	$text = Cache::get($match[1]);
 
 	if(is_null($text)){
+		$a = get_app();
+
 		$ch = @curl_init($match[1]);
 		@curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, true);
 		@curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
-		@curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ".FRIENDICA_PLATFORM." ".FRIENDICA_VERSION."-".DB_UPDATE_VERSION.")");
+		@curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $a->get_useragent());
 		@curl_exec($ch);
 		$curl_info = @curl_getinfo($ch);
 
@@ -722,10 +724,12 @@ function bb_CleanPictureLinksSub($match) {
 	$text = Cache::get($match[1]);
 
 	if(is_null($text)){
+		$a = get_app();
+
 		$ch = @curl_init($match[1]);
 		@curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, true);
 		@curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
-		@curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ".FRIENDICA_PLATFORM." ".FRIENDICA_VERSION."-".DB_UPDATE_VERSION.")");
+		@curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $a->get_useragent());
 		@curl_exec($ch);
 		$curl_info = @curl_getinfo($ch);
 
diff --git a/include/network.php b/include/network.php
index 4c6af8e71b..0f6e61705e 100644
--- a/include/network.php
+++ b/include/network.php
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ function fetch_url($url,$binary = false, &$redirects = 0, $timeout = 0, $accept_
 	}
 
 	@curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,true);
-	@curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ".FRIENDICA_PLATFORM." ".FRIENDICA_VERSION."-".DB_UPDATE_VERSION.")");
+	@curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $a->get_useragent());
 
 
 	if(intval($timeout)) {
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ function post_url($url,$params, $headers = null, &$redirects = 0, $timeout = 0)
 	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,true);
 	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST,1);
 	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$params);
-	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ".FRIENDICA_PLATFORM." ".FRIENDICA_VERSION."-".DB_UPDATE_VERSION.")");
+	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $a->get_useragent());
 
 	if(intval($timeout)) {
 		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, $timeout);
@@ -1114,6 +1114,8 @@ function xml2array($contents, $namespaces = true, $get_attributes=1, $priority =
 
 function original_url($url, $depth=1, $fetchbody = false) {
 
+	$a = get_app();
+
 	// Remove Analytics Data from Google and other tracking platforms
 	$urldata = parse_url($url);
 	if (is_string($urldata["query"])) {
@@ -1163,7 +1165,7 @@ function original_url($url, $depth=1, $fetchbody = false) {
 
         curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
         curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
-	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ".FRIENDICA_PLATFORM." ".FRIENDICA_VERSION."-".DB_UPDATE_VERSION.")");
+	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $a->get_useragent());
 
         $header = curl_exec($ch);
         $curl_info = @curl_getinfo($ch);
diff --git a/mod/parse_url.php b/mod/parse_url.php
index 5048f4fa53..4953b8f4cb 100644
--- a/mod/parse_url.php
+++ b/mod/parse_url.php
@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@ function completeurl($url, $scheme) {
 
 function parseurl_getsiteinfo($url, $no_guessing = false, $do_oembed = true, $count = 1) {
 
+	$a = get_app();
+
 	$siteinfo = array();
 
 	if ($count > 10) {
@@ -71,7 +73,7 @@ function parseurl_getsiteinfo($url, $no_guessing = false, $do_oembed = true, $co
 	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 3);
 	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
 	//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
-	curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ".FRIENDICA_PLATFORM." ".FRIENDICA_VERSION."-".DB_UPDATE_VERSION.")");
+	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $a->get_useragent());
 
 	$header = curl_exec($ch);
 	$curl_info = @curl_getinfo($ch);