diff --git a/.env.example b/.env.example
index 21c139f..c719ba4 100644
--- a/.env.example
+++ b/.env.example
@@ -27,3 +27,5 @@ POSTGRES_DB_PORT=
 POSTGRES_PWD=
 POSTGRES_SEEDS=
 POSTGRES_USER=
+
+MEDIAWIKI_PROXY_URL=
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/hivemind_etl/mediawiki/etl.py b/hivemind_etl/mediawiki/etl.py
index 3b45dde..1acc223 100644
--- a/hivemind_etl/mediawiki/etl.py
+++ b/hivemind_etl/mediawiki/etl.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import logging
+import os
 import shutil
 
 from llama_index.core import Document
@@ -15,7 +16,14 @@ def __init__(
         delete_dump_after_load: bool = True,
     ) -> None:
         self.community_id = community_id
-        self.wikiteam_crawler = WikiteamCrawler(community_id, namespaces=namespaces)
+
+        self.proxy_url = os.getenv("MEDIAWIKI_PROXY_URL", "")
+        if self.proxy_url:
+            logging.info(f"Proxy is set to be used!")
+
+        self.wikiteam_crawler = WikiteamCrawler(
+            community_id, namespaces=namespaces, proxy_url=self.proxy_url
+        )
 
         self.dump_dir = f"dump_{self.community_id}"
         self.delete_dump_after_load = delete_dump_after_load
diff --git a/hivemind_etl/mediawiki/wikiteam_crawler.py b/hivemind_etl/mediawiki/wikiteam_crawler.py
index 002a10c..d26900f 100644
--- a/hivemind_etl/mediawiki/wikiteam_crawler.py
+++ b/hivemind_etl/mediawiki/wikiteam_crawler.py
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ def __init__(
         force: bool = True,
         curonly: bool = True,
         namespaces: list[int] = [],
+        proxy_url: str = "",
         **kwargs,
     ) -> None:
         self.community_id = community_id
@@ -20,6 +21,7 @@ def __init__(
         self.curonly = curonly
         self.extra_params = kwargs
         self.namespaces = namespaces
+        self.proxy_url = proxy_url
 
     def crawl(self, api_url: str, dump_path: str) -> None:
         """
@@ -50,6 +52,9 @@ def crawl(self, api_url: str, dump_path: str) -> None:
         if self.namespaces:
             params.append(f"--namespaces")
             params.append(f"{','.join(map(str, self.namespaces))}")
+        if self.proxy_url:
+            params.append(f"--proxy")
+            params.append(self.proxy_url)
 
         # Add any extra parameters passed during initialization
         for key, value in self.extra_params.items():
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index fdfbd5b..6bdc60d 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -8,4 +8,4 @@ defusedxml==0.7.1
 pydantic==2.9.2
 motor>=3.6, <4.0.0
 tc-temporal-backend==1.0.0
-wikiteam3==4.4.1
+wikiteam3-fork-proxy==1.0.0