diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index f599772..50e8678 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ ENV PATH="/app/.venv/bin:$PATH" \
   PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1 \
   # Tell undetected-chromedriver where Chrome lives
   CHROME_BINARY=/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable \
+  CHROMEDRIVER_PATH=/app/drivers/chromedriver \
   # Always run headless inside Docker
   HEADLESS=true
 
@@ -51,7 +52,9 @@ COPY . .
 # Copy this after the application so a host venv can never replace it.
 COPY --from=builder /app/.venv /app/.venv
 
-RUN mkdir -p data logs
+# Download and patch the matching driver at build time. Runtime jobs must not
+# depend on undetected-chromedriver's network downloader.
+RUN PYTHONPATH=. python scripts/patch_driver.py && mkdir -p data logs
 
 # Non-root user for safety
 RUN useradd -m -u 1001 seed && chown -R seed:seed /app
diff --git a/scripts/patch_driver.py b/scripts/patch_driver.py
index 0a21454..0215ecd 100644
--- a/scripts/patch_driver.py
+++ b/scripts/patch_driver.py
@@ -22,6 +22,13 @@ from logger import get_logger
 
 log = get_logger(__name__)
 
+_DOWNLOAD_HEADERS = {
+    "User-Agent": (
+        "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 "
+        "(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/124.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
+    )
+}
+
 
 def _get_chrome_full_version() -> tuple[int, str]:
     candidates = ["google-chrome", "google-chrome-stable", "chromium", "chromium-browser"]
@@ -49,7 +56,8 @@ def _get_chrome_full_version() -> tuple[int, str]:
 def _latest_chromedriver_version(major: int) -> str:
     url = f"https://googlechromelabs.github.io/chrome-for-testing/LATEST_RELEASE_{major}"
     try:
-        with urllib.request.urlopen(url, timeout=15) as resp:
+        request = urllib.request.Request(url, headers=_DOWNLOAD_HEADERS)
+        with urllib.request.urlopen(request, timeout=15) as resp:
             version = resp.read().decode().strip()
             log.info("Latest ChromeDriver for Chrome %d: %s", major, version)
             return version
@@ -65,7 +73,8 @@ def _download_chromedriver(version: str, dest: Path) -> None:
     )
     log.info("Downloading ChromeDriver %s …", version)
     try:
-        with urllib.request.urlopen(zip_url, timeout=60) as resp:
+        request = urllib.request.Request(zip_url, headers=_DOWNLOAD_HEADERS)
+        with urllib.request.urlopen(request, timeout=60) as resp:
             data = resp.read()
     except Exception as exc:
         log.critical("Download failed: %s", exc)