diff --git a/apps/api/src/controllers/crawl.ts b/apps/api/src/controllers/crawl.ts
index 8fd876d3..89358fcc 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/controllers/crawl.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/controllers/crawl.ts
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import { isUrlBlocked } from "../../src/scraper/WebScraper/utils/blocklist";
 import { logCrawl } from "../../src/services/logging/crawl_log";
 import { validateIdempotencyKey } from "../../src/services/idempotency/validate";
 import { createIdempotencyKey } from "../../src/services/idempotency/create";
+import { defaultCrawlPageOptions, defaultCrawlerOptions, defaultOrigin } from "../../src/lib/default-values";
 
 export async function crawlController(req: Request, res: Response) {
   try {
@@ -56,15 +57,8 @@ export async function crawlController(req: Request, res: Response) {
 
     const mode = req.body.mode ?? "crawl";
 
-    const crawlerOptions = req.body.crawlerOptions ?? {
-      allowBackwardCrawling: false
-    };
-    const pageOptions = req.body.pageOptions ?? {
-      onlyMainContent: false,
-      includeHtml: false,
-      removeTags: [],
-      parsePDF: true
-    };
+    const crawlerOptions = { ...defaultCrawlerOptions, ...req.body.crawlerOptions };
+    const pageOptions = { ...defaultCrawlPageOptions, ...req.body.pageOptions };
 
     if (mode === "single_urls" && !url.includes(",")) {
       try {
@@ -100,7 +94,7 @@ export async function crawlController(req: Request, res: Response) {
       crawlerOptions: crawlerOptions,
       team_id: team_id,
       pageOptions: pageOptions,
-      origin: req.body.origin ?? "api",
+      origin: req.body.origin ?? defaultOrigin,
     });
 
     await logCrawl(job.id.toString(), team_id);
diff --git a/apps/api/src/controllers/scrape.ts b/apps/api/src/controllers/scrape.ts
index 1537c071..d394efe8 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/controllers/scrape.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/controllers/scrape.ts
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import { logJob } from "../services/logging/log_job";
 import { Document } from "../lib/entities";
 import { isUrlBlocked } from "../scraper/WebScraper/utils/blocklist"; // Import the isUrlBlocked function
 import { numTokensFromString } from '../lib/LLM-extraction/helpers';
+import { defaultPageOptions, defaultExtractorOptions, defaultTimeout, defaultOrigin } from '../lib/default-values';
 
 export async function scrapeHelper(
   req: Request,
@@ -105,21 +106,13 @@ export async function scrapeController(req: Request, res: Response) {
       return res.status(status).json({ error });
     }
     const crawlerOptions = req.body.crawlerOptions ?? {};
-    const pageOptions = req.body.pageOptions ?? {
-      onlyMainContent: false,
-      includeHtml: false,
-      waitFor: 0,
-      screenshot: false,
-      parsePDF: true
-    };
-    const extractorOptions = req.body.extractorOptions ?? {
-      mode: "markdown"
-    }
+    const pageOptions = { ...defaultPageOptions, ...req.body.pageOptions };
+    const extractorOptions = { ...defaultExtractorOptions, ...req.body.extractorOptions };
     if (extractorOptions.mode === "llm-extraction") {
       pageOptions.onlyMainContent = true;
     }
-    const origin = req.body.origin ?? "api";
-    const timeout = req.body.timeout ?? 30000; // Default timeout of 30 seconds
+    const origin = req.body.origin ?? defaultOrigin;
+    const timeout = req.body.timeout ?? defaultTimeout;
 
     try {
       const { success: creditsCheckSuccess, message: creditsCheckMessage } =
diff --git a/apps/api/src/lib/default-values.ts b/apps/api/src/lib/default-values.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6ae5f99f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/api/src/lib/default-values.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+export const defaultOrigin = "api";
+
+export const defaultTimeout = 30000; // 30 seconds
+
+export const defaultPageOptions = {
+  onlyMainContent: false,
+  includeHtml: false,
+  waitFor: 0,
+  screenshot: false,
+  parsePDF: true
+};
+
+export const defaultCrawlerOptions = {
+  allowBackwardCrawling: false
+}
+
+export const defaultCrawlPageOptions = {
+  onlyMainContent: false,
+  includeHtml: false,
+  removeTags: [],
+  parsePDF: true
+}
+
+export const defaultExtractorOptions = {
+  mode: "markdown"
+}
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