diff --git a/pkg/scraper/script.go b/pkg/scraper/script.go
index 46c4164fe..32f768d45 100644
--- a/pkg/scraper/script.go
+++ b/pkg/scraper/script.go
@@ -30,6 +30,13 @@ func newScriptScraper(scraper scraperTypeConfig, config config, globalConfig Glo
 func (s *scriptScraper) runScraperScript(inString string, out interface{}) error {
 	command := s.scraper.Script
 
+	if command[0] == "python" || command[0] == "python3" {
+		executable, err := findPythonExecutable()
+		if err == nil {
+			command[0] = executable
+		}
+	}
+
 	cmd := exec.Command(command[0], command[1:]...)
 	cmd.Dir = filepath.Dir(s.config.path)
 
@@ -184,3 +191,19 @@ func (s *scriptScraper) scrapeMovieByURL(url string) (*models.ScrapedMovie, erro
 
 	return &ret, err
 }
+
+func findPythonExecutable() (string, error) {
+	_, err := exec.LookPath("python3")
+
+	if err != nil {
+		_, err = exec.LookPath("python")
+
+		if err != nil {
+			return "", err
+		}
+
+		return "python", nil
+	}
+
+	return "python3", nil
+}
diff --git a/ui/v2.5/src/components/Changelog/versions/v060.md b/ui/v2.5/src/components/Changelog/versions/v060.md
index b7234ecf7..f1eda611e 100644
--- a/ui/v2.5/src/components/Changelog/versions/v060.md
+++ b/ui/v2.5/src/components/Changelog/versions/v060.md
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 ### 🎨 Improvements
+* Resolve python executable to `python3` or `python` for python script scrapers.
 * Add `url` field to `URLReplace`, and make `queryURLReplace` available when scraping by URL.
 * Make logging format consistent across platforms and include full timestamp.
 * Remember gallery images view mode.
diff --git a/ui/v2.5/src/docs/en/Scraping.md b/ui/v2.5/src/docs/en/Scraping.md
index 59065f84a..0c09a93b8 100644
--- a/ui/v2.5/src/docs/en/Scraping.md
+++ b/ui/v2.5/src/docs/en/Scraping.md
@@ -85,7 +85,8 @@ script:
   - query
 ```
 
-This configuration would execute `python iafdScrape.py query`.
+Stash will find the correct python executable for your system, either `python` or `python3`. So for example. this configuration could execute `python iafdScrape.py query` or `python3 iafdScrape.py query`.
+`python3` will be looked for first and if it's not found, we'll check for `python`. In the case neither are found, you will get an error.
 
 Stash sends data to the script process's `stdin` stream and expects the output to be streamed to the `stdout` stream. Any errors and progress messages should be output to `stderr`.