diff --git a/apps/api/src/__tests__/e2e_withAuth/index.test.ts b/apps/api/src/__tests__/e2e_withAuth/index.test.ts
index 331283e..39825c4 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/__tests__/e2e_withAuth/index.test.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/__tests__/e2e_withAuth/index.test.ts
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ describe("E2E Tests for API Routes", () => {
       urls.forEach((url: string) => {
         expect(url.startsWith("https://wwww.mendable.ai/blog/")).toBeFalsy();
       });
-    }, 60000); // 60 seconds
+    }, 90000); // 90 seconds
 
     it("should return a successful response with a valid API key and limit to 3", async () => {
       const crawlResponse = await request(TEST_URL)
diff --git a/apps/api/src/scraper/WebScraper/crawler.ts b/apps/api/src/scraper/WebScraper/crawler.ts
index adfd435..9340aa8 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/scraper/WebScraper/crawler.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/scraper/WebScraper/crawler.ts
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ export class WebCrawler {
     initialUrl,
     includes,
     excludes,
-    maxCrawledLinks,
+    maxCrawledLinks = 10000,
     limit = 10000,
     generateImgAltText = false,
     maxCrawledDepth = 10,
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ export class WebCrawler {
     inProgress?: (progress: Progress) => void,
   ): Promise<{ url: string, html: string }[]> {
     const queue = async.queue(async (task: string, callback) => {
-      if (this.crawledUrls.size >= this.maxCrawledLinks) {
+      if (this.crawledUrls.size >= Math.min(this.maxCrawledLinks, this.limit)) {
         if (callback && typeof callback === "function") {
           callback();
         }
@@ -176,14 +176,14 @@ export class WebCrawler {
       if (inProgress && newUrls.length > 0) {
         inProgress({
           current: this.crawledUrls.size,
-          total: this.maxCrawledLinks,
+          total: Math.min(this.maxCrawledLinks, this.limit),
           status: "SCRAPING",
           currentDocumentUrl: newUrls[newUrls.length - 1].url,
         });
       } else if (inProgress) {
         inProgress({
           current: this.crawledUrls.size,
-          total: this.maxCrawledLinks,
+          total: Math.min(this.maxCrawledLinks, this.limit),
           status: "SCRAPING",
           currentDocumentUrl: task,
         });