diff --git a/tests/test_cli_scout_url.py b/tests/test_cli_scout_url.py
index 29a40c8..9b5c641 100644
--- a/tests/test_cli_scout_url.py
+++ b/tests/test_cli_scout_url.py
@@ -176,3 +176,31 @@ def _fake_get(*args, **kwargs):
     assert calls[1]["timeout"] == 7
     assert responses[0].text_reads == 0
     assert responses[1].text_reads == 1
+
+
+def test_probe_url_passes_custom_user_agent(monkeypatch) -> None:
+    calls: list[dict[str, Any]] = []
+
+    class _FakeResponse:
+        def __init__(self) -> None:
+            self.headers = {"Content-Type": "application/octet-stream"}
+            self.url = "https://example.org/resource"
+            self.status_code = 200
+
+        def __enter__(self) -> "_FakeResponse":
+            return self
+
+        def __exit__(self, exc_type, exc, tb) -> None:
+            return None
+
+    def _fake_get(*args, **kwargs):
+        calls.append(kwargs)
+        return _FakeResponse()
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr("toolkit.cli.cmd_scout_url.requests.get", _fake_get)
+
+    custom_ua = "Mozilla/5.0 (DataCivicLab Custom)"
+    probe_url("https://example.org/test", user_agent=custom_ua)
+
+    assert len(calls) == 1
+    assert calls[0]["headers"] == {"User-Agent": custom_ua}
diff --git a/toolkit/cli/cmd_scout_url.py b/toolkit/cli/cmd_scout_url.py
index a1ff41f..22e44e0 100644
--- a/toolkit/cli/cmd_scout_url.py
+++ b/toolkit/cli/cmd_scout_url.py
@@ -72,8 +72,8 @@ def _candidate_links(base_url: str, html_text: str) -> list[str]:
     return links
 
 
-def probe_url(url: str, *, timeout: int = _DEFAULT_TIMEOUT) -> dict[str, Any]:
-    headers = {"User-Agent": _DEFAULT_USER_AGENT}
+def probe_url(url: str, *, timeout: int = _DEFAULT_TIMEOUT, user_agent: str = _DEFAULT_USER_AGENT) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    headers = {"User-Agent": user_agent}
     with requests.get(url, allow_redirects=True, timeout=timeout, headers=headers, stream=True) as response:
         content_type = response.headers.get("Content-Type")
         content_disposition = response.headers.get("Content-Disposition")
@@ -105,12 +105,13 @@ def probe_url(url: str, *, timeout: int = _DEFAULT_TIMEOUT) -> dict[str, Any]:
 def scout_url(
     url: str = typer.Argument(..., help="URL da ispezionare"),
     timeout: int = typer.Option(_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT, "--timeout", min=1, help="Timeout HTTP in secondi"),
+    user_agent: str = typer.Option(_DEFAULT_USER_AGENT, "--user-agent", help="User-Agent da usare per la richiesta"),
 ) -> None:
     """
     Ispeziona un URL per dataset scouting minimale.
     """
     try:
-        result = probe_url(url, timeout=timeout)
+        result = probe_url(url, timeout=timeout, user_agent=user_agent)
     except requests.RequestException as exc:
         typer.echo(f"error: {type(exc).__name__}: {exc}")
         raise typer.Exit(code=1) from exc