diff --git a/src/search/images.ts b/src/search/images.ts
index 3bcabac..54be762 100644
--- a/src/search/images.ts
+++ b/src/search/images.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { decode } from 'html-entities';
 import needle, { NeedleOptions } from 'needle';
 
 import { DuckbarImageResult, DuckbarResponse } from '../types';
-import { ensureJSON, getVQD, queryString, SafeSearchType } from '../util';
+import { COMMON_HEADERS, ensureJSON, getVQD, queryString, SafeSearchType } from '../util';
 
 /** The types of image sizes. */
 export enum ImageSize {
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ export async function searchImages(query: string, options?: ImageSearchOptions,
     s: String(options.offset || 0)
   };
 
-  const response = await needle('get', `https://duckduckgo.com/i.js?${queryString(queryObject)}`, needleOptions);
+  const response = await needle('get', `https://duckduckgo.com/i.js?${queryString(queryObject)}`, needleOptions || { headers: COMMON_HEADERS });
 
   if (response.statusCode === 403) throw new Error('A server error occurred!');
 
diff --git a/src/search/news.ts b/src/search/news.ts
index 308d312..b2a5639 100644
--- a/src/search/news.ts
+++ b/src/search/news.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { decode } from 'html-entities';
 import needle, { NeedleOptions } from 'needle';
 
 import { DuckbarNewsResult, DuckbarResponse } from '../types';
-import { ensureJSON, getVQD, queryString, SafeSearchType, SearchTimeType } from '../util';
+import { COMMON_HEADERS, ensureJSON, getVQD, queryString, SafeSearchType, SearchTimeType } from '../util';
 
 /** The options for {@link searchNews}. */
 export interface NewsSearchOptions {
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ export async function searchNews(query: string, options?: NewsSearchOptions, nee
     s: String(options.offset || 0)
   };
 
-  const response = await needle('get', `https://duckduckgo.com/news.js?${queryString(queryObject)}`, needleOptions);
+  const response = await needle('get', `https://duckduckgo.com/news.js?${queryString(queryObject)}`, needleOptions || { headers: COMMON_HEADERS });
 
   if (response.statusCode === 403) throw new Error('A server error occurred!');
 
diff --git a/src/search/search.ts b/src/search/search.ts
index b117f85..c6d7ba7 100644
--- a/src/search/search.ts
+++ b/src/search/search.ts
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import {
   DuckbarRelatedSearch,
   DuckbarVideoResult
 } from '../types';
-import { ensureJSON, getVQD, queryString, SafeSearchType, SearchTimeType } from '../util';
+import { COMMON_HEADERS, ensureJSON, getVQD, queryString, SafeSearchType, SearchTimeType } from '../util';
 import { NewsResult } from './news';
 import { VideoResult } from './videos';
 
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ export async function search(query: string, options?: SearchOptions, needleOptio
   else options = sanityCheck(options);
 
   let vqd = options.vqd!;
-  if (!vqd) vqd = await getVQD(query, 'web', needleOptions);
+  if (!vqd) vqd = await getVQD(query, 'web', needleOptions || { headers: COMMON_HEADERS });
 
   /* istanbul ignore next */
   const queryObject: Record<string, string> = {
diff --git a/src/search/videos.ts b/src/search/videos.ts
index 244d18c..8124777 100644
--- a/src/search/videos.ts
+++ b/src/search/videos.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { decode } from 'html-entities';
 import needle, { NeedleOptions } from 'needle';
 
 import { DuckbarResponse, DuckbarVideoResult } from '../types';
-import { ensureJSON, getVQD, queryString, SafeSearchType, SearchTimeType } from '../util';
+import { COMMON_HEADERS, ensureJSON, getVQD, queryString, SafeSearchType, SearchTimeType } from '../util';
 
 /** The types of video definition. */
 export enum VideoDefinition {
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ export async function searchVideos(query: string, options?: VideoSearchOptions,
     s: String(options.offset || 0)
   };
 
-  const response = await needle('get', `https://duckduckgo.com/v.js?${queryString(queryObject)}`, needleOptions);
+  const response = await needle('get', `https://duckduckgo.com/v.js?${queryString(queryObject)}`, needleOptions || { headers: COMMON_HEADERS });
 
   if (response.statusCode === 403) throw new Error('A server error occurred!');
 
diff --git a/src/util.ts b/src/util.ts
index c28c785..093f161 100644
--- a/src/util.ts
+++ b/src/util.ts
@@ -4,6 +4,19 @@ import needle, { NeedleOptions } from 'needle';
 export const SPICE_BASE = 'https://duckduckgo.com/js/spice';
 /** @internal */
 export const VQD_REGEX = /vqd=['"](\d+-\d+(?:-\d+)?)['"]/;
+/** @internal */
+export const COMMON_HEADERS: Record<string, string> = {
+  'sec-ch-ua': '"Not=A?Brand";v="8", "Chromium";v="129"',
+  'sec-ch-ua-mobile': '?0',
+  'sec-ch-ua-platform': '"Windows"',
+  'sec-fetch-dest': 'document',
+  'sec-fetch-mode': 'navigate',
+  'sec-fetch-site': 'none',
+  'sec-fetch-user': '?1',
+  'sec-gpc': '1',
+  'upgrade-insecure-requests': '1',
+  'user-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/129.0.0.0 Safari/537.36'
+};
 
 /** The safe search values when searching DuckDuckGo. */
 export enum SafeSearchType {