diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index bca20c71..3a435565 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
   <groupId>com.rarchives.ripme</groupId>
   <artifactId>ripme</artifactId>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
-  <version>1.1.7</version>
+  <version>1.1.8</version>
   <name>ripme</name>
   <url>http://rip.rarchives.com</url>
   <properties>
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/rarchives/ripme/ripper/AbstractRipper.java b/src/main/java/com/rarchives/ripme/ripper/AbstractRipper.java
index c304f6b5..206161aa 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/rarchives/ripme/ripper/AbstractRipper.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/rarchives/ripme/ripper/AbstractRipper.java
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ public abstract class AbstractRipper
     protected static final Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(AbstractRipper.class);
 
     public static final String USER_AGENT = 
-            "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0";
+            "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0";
 
     protected URL url;
     protected File workingDir;
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/rarchives/ripme/ripper/rippers/RedditRipper.java b/src/main/java/com/rarchives/ripme/ripper/rippers/RedditRipper.java
index afd676f1..bfff9cbe 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/rarchives/ripme/ripper/rippers/RedditRipper.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/rarchives/ripme/ripper/rippers/RedditRipper.java
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import org.json.JSONObject;
 import org.json.JSONTokener;
 
 import com.rarchives.ripme.ripper.AlbumRipper;
+import com.rarchives.ripme.ui.UpdateUtils;
 import com.rarchives.ripme.utils.Http;
 import com.rarchives.ripme.utils.RipUtils;
 import com.rarchives.ripme.utils.Utils;
@@ -24,6 +25,8 @@ public class RedditRipper extends AlbumRipper {
 
     private static final String HOST   = "reddit";
     private static final String DOMAIN = "reddit.com";
+    
+    private static final String REDDIT_USER_AGENT = "RipMe:github/4pr0n/ripme:" + UpdateUtils.getThisJarVersion() + " (by /u/4_pr0n)";
 
     private static final int SLEEP_TIME = 2000;
 
@@ -120,6 +123,7 @@ public class RedditRipper extends AlbumRipper {
 
         String jsonString = Http.url(url)
                                 .ignoreContentType()
+                                .userAgent(REDDIT_USER_AGENT)
                                 .response()
                                 .body();
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/rarchives/ripme/ui/UpdateUtils.java b/src/main/java/com/rarchives/ripme/ui/UpdateUtils.java
index a96b0fdb..b689e0d7 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/rarchives/ripme/ui/UpdateUtils.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/rarchives/ripme/ui/UpdateUtils.java
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ import com.rarchives.ripme.utils.Utils;
 public class UpdateUtils {
 
     private static final Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(UpdateUtils.class);
-    private static final String DEFAULT_VERSION = "1.1.7";
+    private static final String DEFAULT_VERSION = "1.1.8";
     private static final String updateJsonURL = "http://rarchives.com/ripme.json";
     private static final String updateJarURL = "http://rarchives.com/ripme.jar";
     private static final String mainFileName = "ripme.jar";