diff --git a/cognee/tasks/web_scraper/config.py b/cognee/tasks/web_scraper/config.py
index 4b54c6470..e28f412e5 100644
--- a/cognee/tasks/web_scraper/config.py
+++ b/cognee/tasks/web_scraper/config.py
@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
 from pydantic import BaseModel, Field
-from typing import Any, Dict, Optional
+from typing import Any, Dict, Optional, Literal
 import os
 
 
 class TavilyConfig(BaseModel):
     api_key: str = os.getenv("TAVILY_API_KEY")
-    extract_depth: str = "basic"
-    timeout: Optional[int] = Field(default=None, ge=1, le=60)
+    extract_depth: Literal["basic","advanced"] = "basic"
+    proxies: Optional[Dict[str,str]] = None
+    timeout: Optional[int] = Field(default=10, ge=1, le=60)
 
 
 class SoupCrawlerConfig(BaseModel):
diff --git a/cognee/tasks/web_scraper/utils.py b/cognee/tasks/web_scraper/utils.py
index f22a18aa5..1a300a37b 100644
--- a/cognee/tasks/web_scraper/utils.py
+++ b/cognee/tasks/web_scraper/utils.py
@@ -105,8 +105,16 @@ async def fetch_with_tavily(
             "Failed to import tavily, make sure to install using pip install tavily-python>=0.7.0"
         )
         raise
-    client = AsyncTavilyClient(api_key=tavily_config.api_key if tavily_config else None)
-    results = await client.extract(urls, format="text")
+    client = AsyncTavilyClient(
+        api_key=tavily_config.api_key if tavily_config else None,
+        proxies=tavily_config.proxies if tavily_config else None
+    )
+    results = await client.extract(
+        urls, 
+        format="text",
+        extract_depth=tavily_config.extract_depth if tavily_config else "basic",
+        timeout=tavily_config.timeout if tavily_config else 10
+    )
     for failed_result in results.get("failed_results", []):
         logger.warning(f"Failed to fetch {failed_result}")
     return_results = {}