diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/udemy.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/udemy.py
index 195f5ce78..6d6c0a98f 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/udemy.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/udemy.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import re
 from .common import InfoExtractor
 from ..compat import (
     compat_HTTPError,
+    compat_kwargs,
     compat_str,
     compat_urllib_request,
     compat_urlparse,
@@ -114,6 +115,11 @@ class UdemyIE(InfoExtractor):
                 error_str += ' - %s' % error_data.get('formErrors')
             raise ExtractorError(error_str, expected=True)
 
+    def _download_webpage(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        kwargs.setdefault('headers', {})['User-Agent'] = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_5) AppleWebKit/603.2.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.1.1 Safari/603.2.4'
+        return super(UdemyIE, self)._download_webpage(
+            *args, **compat_kwargs(kwargs))
+
     def _download_json(self, url_or_request, *args, **kwargs):
         headers = {
             'X-Udemy-Snail-Case': 'true',