diff --git a/src/all/deviantart/build.gradle b/src/all/deviantart/build.gradle
index 81534ca6a..464ba363d 100644
--- a/src/all/deviantart/build.gradle
+++ b/src/all/deviantart/build.gradle
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ext {
     extName = 'DeviantArt'
     extClass = '.DeviantArt'
-    extVersionCode = 2
+    extVersionCode = 3
     isNsfw = true
 }
 
diff --git a/src/all/deviantart/src/eu/kanade/tachiyomi/extension/all/deviantart/DeviantArt.kt b/src/all/deviantart/src/eu/kanade/tachiyomi/extension/all/deviantart/DeviantArt.kt
index 5c56b1444..ac041baec 100644
--- a/src/all/deviantart/src/eu/kanade/tachiyomi/extension/all/deviantart/DeviantArt.kt
+++ b/src/all/deviantart/src/eu/kanade/tachiyomi/extension/all/deviantart/DeviantArt.kt
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import eu.kanade.tachiyomi.source.model.SChapter
 import eu.kanade.tachiyomi.source.model.SManga
 import eu.kanade.tachiyomi.source.online.HttpSource
 import eu.kanade.tachiyomi.util.asJsoup
+import okhttp3.Headers
 import okhttp3.HttpUrl.Companion.toHttpUrl
 import okhttp3.Request
 import okhttp3.Response
@@ -24,6 +25,10 @@ class DeviantArt : HttpSource() {
     override val lang = "all"
     override val supportsLatest = false
 
+    override fun headersBuilder() = Headers.Builder().apply {
+        add("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:133.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/133.0")
+    }
+
     private val backendBaseUrl = "https://backend.deviantart.com"
     private fun backendBuilder() = backendBaseUrl.toHttpUrl().newBuilder()
 
@@ -48,10 +53,11 @@ class DeviantArt : HttpSource() {
     }
 
     override fun searchMangaRequest(page: Int, query: String, filters: FilterList): Request {
-        require(query.startsWith("gallery:")) { SEARCH_FORMAT_MSG }
-        val querySegments = query.substringAfter(":").split("/")
-        val username = querySegments[0]
-        val folderId = querySegments.getOrElse(1) { "all" }
+        val matchGroups = requireNotNull(
+            Regex("""gallery:([\w-]+)(?:/(\d+))?""").matchEntire(query)?.groupValues,
+        ) { SEARCH_FORMAT_MSG }
+        val username = matchGroups[1]
+        val folderId = matchGroups[2].ifEmpty { "all" }
         return GET("$baseUrl/$username/gallery/$folderId", headers)
     }