diff --git a/cognee/tasks/web_scraper/utils.py b/cognee/tasks/web_scraper/utils.py
index 5af95a2fe..f8f4b7eab 100644
--- a/cognee/tasks/web_scraper/utils.py
+++ b/cognee/tasks/web_scraper/utils.py
@@ -82,6 +82,8 @@ async def fetch_page_content(
         except Exception as e:
             logger.error(f"Error fetching page content: {str(e)}")
             raise
+        finally:
+            crawler.close()
 
 
 async def fetch_with_tavily(