diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index de9a820..b9222bc 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -3266,6 +3266,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "sync_wrapper",
  "tokio 1.40.0",
  "tokio-rustls",
+ "tokio-socks",
  "tokio-util",
  "tower-service",
  "url 2.5.2",
@@ -4096,6 +4097,18 @@ dependencies = [
  "tokio 1.40.0",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "tokio-socks"
+version = "0.5.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "0d4770b8024672c1101b3f6733eab95b18007dbe0847a8afe341fcf79e06043f"
+dependencies = [
+ "either",
+ "futures-util",
+ "thiserror",
+ "tokio 1.38.0",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "tokio-sync"
 version = "0.1.8"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index d4dd298..557d953 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ reqwest = { version = "0.12.5", default-features = false, features = [
     "rustls-tls",
     "brotli",
     "gzip",
-    "http2"
+    "http2",
 ] }
 tokio = { version = "1.32.0", features = [
     "rt-multi-thread",
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ opt-level = "z"
 
 [features]
 use-synonyms-search = ["thesaurus/static"]
-default = ["memory-cache"]
+default = ["memory-cache", "socks"]
 dhat-heap = ["dep:dhat"]
 memory-cache = ["dep:moka"]
 redis-cache = ["dep:redis", "dep:base64"]
@@ -183,3 +183,4 @@ encrypt-cache-results = ["dep:chacha20poly1305", "dep:chacha20"]
 cec-cache-results = ["compress-cache-results", "encrypt-cache-results"]
 experimental-io-uring = ["actix-web/experimental-io-uring"]
 use-non-static-synonyms-search = ["thesaurus"]
+socks = ["reqwest/socks"]
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diff --git a/src/config/parser.rs b/src/config/parser.rs
index 8bed460..b9556c4 100644
--- a/src/config/parser.rs
+++ b/src/config/parser.rs
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ use crate::handler::{file_path, FileType};
 use crate::models::parser_models::{AggregatorConfig, RateLimiter, Style};
 use log::LevelFilter;
 use mlua::Lua;
+use reqwest::Proxy;
 use std::{collections::HashMap, fs, thread::available_parallelism};
 
 /// A named struct which stores the parsed config file options.
@@ -48,6 +49,9 @@ pub struct Config {
     pub tcp_connection_keep_alive: u8,
     /// It stores the pool idle connection timeout in seconds.
     pub pool_idle_connection_timeout: u8,
+
+    /// Url of the proxy to use for outgoing requests.
+    pub proxy: Option<Proxy>,
 }
 
 impl Config {
@@ -118,6 +122,15 @@ impl Config {
             _ => parsed_cet,
         };
 
+        let proxy_str = globals.get::<_, String>("proxy")?;
+        let proxy = match Proxy::all(proxy_str) {
+            Ok(proxy) => Some(proxy),
+            Err(_) => {
+                log::error!("Invalid proxy url, defaulting to no proxy.");
+                None
+            }
+        };
+
         Ok(Config {
             port: globals.get::<_, u16>("port")?,
             binding_ip: globals.get::<_, String>("binding_ip")?,
@@ -148,6 +161,7 @@ impl Config {
             safe_search,
             #[cfg(any(feature = "redis-cache", feature = "memory-cache"))]
             cache_expiry_time,
+            proxy,
         })
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/results/aggregator.rs b/src/results/aggregator.rs
index 009111b..4538075 100644
--- a/src/results/aggregator.rs
+++ b/src/results/aggregator.rs
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ pub async fn aggregate(
     safe_search: u8,
 ) -> Result<SearchResults, Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
     let client = CLIENT.get_or_init(|| {
-        ClientBuilder::new()
+        let mut cb = ClientBuilder::new()
             .timeout(Duration::from_secs(config.request_timeout as u64)) // Add timeout to request to avoid DDOSing the server
             .pool_idle_timeout(Duration::from_secs(
                 config.pool_idle_connection_timeout as u64,
@@ -85,9 +85,13 @@ pub async fn aggregate(
             .https_only(true)
             .gzip(true)
             .brotli(true)
-            .http2_adaptive_window(config.adaptive_window)
-            .build()
-            .unwrap()
+            .http2_adaptive_window(config.adaptive_window);
+
+        if config.proxy.is_some() {
+            cb = cb.proxy(config.proxy.clone().unwrap());
+        }
+
+        cb.build().unwrap()
     });
 
     let user_agent: &str = random_user_agent();
@@ -241,6 +245,7 @@ pub async fn filter_with_lists(
 
     Ok(())
 }
+
 /// Sorts  SearchResults by relevance score.
 /// <br> sort_unstable is used as its faster,stability is not an issue on our side.
 /// For reasons why, check out [`this`](https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/1884-unstable-sort.html)
@@ -256,6 +261,7 @@ fn sort_search_results(results: &mut [SearchResult]) {
             .unwrap_or(Ordering::Less)
     })
 }
+
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
     use super::*;
diff --git a/websurfx/config.lua b/websurfx/config.lua
index f346c1f..61857e4 100644
--- a/websurfx/config.lua
+++ b/websurfx/config.lua
@@ -73,3 +73,5 @@ upstream_search_engines = {
     Mojeek = false,
     Bing = false,
 } -- select the upstream search engines from which the results should be fetched.
+
+proxy = "" -- Proxy to send outgoing requests through. Set to empty string to disable.
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