diff --git a/News/ExtractMainContent.py b/News/ExtractMainContent.py
index 2677a1e..3ffb814 100644
--- a/News/ExtractMainContent.py
+++ b/News/ExtractMainContent.py
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 
 class ExtractMainContent(object):
     def __init__(self,source,articleurl):
+        #import pdb; pdb.set_trace();
         self.extractorlist=[HuffingtonPost(),NYT(),BBC(),BloomBerg(),Guardian(),TheHindu(),TimesOfIndia()]
         websites=ConfigurationReader().GetWebsiteSupported()
         self.Mapping={}
@@ -23,7 +24,18 @@ def __init__(self,source,articleurl):
         
     def DownloadContent(self):
         headers={'User-Agent':'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/59.0.3071.115 Safari/537.36'}
-        req=requests.get(self.url,headers=headers)
+        Configuration = ConfigurationReader()
+        self.__ProxyIP=Configuration.GetProxyIP()
+        self.__ProxyPortNumber=Configuration.GetProxyPortNumber()
+        proxies = {}
+        if self.__ProxyIP and self.__ProxyPortNumber:
+            proxies = {
+                'http': "http://{}:{}".format(self.__ProxyIP,
+                                              self.__ProxyPortNumber),
+                'https': "https://{}:{}".format(self.__ProxyIP,
+                                               self.__ProxyPortNumber),
+            }
+        req=requests.get(self.url,headers=headers,proxies=proxies)
         return req.text
     
     def AddExtractorList(self,extractor):
diff --git a/News/NewsPulling.py b/News/NewsPulling.py
index a16aa5d..0472d8f 100644
--- a/News/NewsPulling.py
+++ b/News/NewsPulling.py
@@ -20,9 +20,19 @@ def PullNews(self):
         Configuration = ConfigurationReader()
         self.__APIKey=Configuration.GetAPIKEY()
         self.__Limit=Configuration.GetLimit()
+        self.__ProxyIP=Configuration.GetProxyIP()
+        self.__ProxyPortNumber=Configuration.GetProxyPortNumber()
         url='https://newsapi.org/v2/top-headlines?sources='+self.Source+'&sortBy=top&apiKey='+self.__APIKey
+        proxies = {}
+        if self.__ProxyIP and self.__ProxyPortNumber:
+            proxies = {
+                'http': "http://{}:{}".format(self.__ProxyIP,
+                                              self.__ProxyPortNumber),
+                'https': "https://{}:{}".format(self.__ProxyIP,
+                                               self.__ProxyPortNumber),
+            }
         try:
-            req=requests.get(url)
+            req=requests.get(url,proxies=proxies)
             if(req.status_code==200):
                 return req
             else:
diff --git a/News/configReader.py b/News/configReader.py
index a8b90c4..172367d 100644
--- a/News/configReader.py
+++ b/News/configReader.py
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ class ConfigurationReader():
     __APIKEY=None
     __WebsiteSupported=[]
     __Limit=None
+    __ProxyIP=None
+    __ProxyPortNumber=None
     def __init__(self):
         with open("config.yml", 'r') as ymlfile:
             cfg = yaml.load(ymlfile)
@@ -21,6 +23,10 @@ def __init__(self):
         #print ConfigurationReader.__Limit
         ConfigurationReader.__WebsiteSupported=cfg['WebsiteSupported']
         #print ConfigurationReader.__WebsiteSupported
+        ConfigurationReader.__ProxyIP = cfg['ProxyIP']
+        # print ConfigurationReader.__ProxyIP
+        ConfigurationReader.__ProxyPortNumber = cfg['ProxyPortNumber']
+        # print ConfigurationReader.__ProxyPortNumber
     @staticmethod    
     def GetAPIKEY():
         return ConfigurationReader.__APIKEY
@@ -32,5 +38,13 @@ def GetLimit():
     @staticmethod
     def GetWebsiteSupported():
         return ConfigurationReader.__WebsiteSupported
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def GetProxyIP():
+        return ConfigurationReader.__ProxyIP
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def GetProxyPortNumber():
+        return ConfigurationReader.__ProxyPortNumber
     
     
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index caf6f22..8c825ed 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ To install the module dependencies before running the application, simply naviga
  ### To install
     python setup.py install
     newsctl
+ ### If you are accessing the web through a proxy service:
+    Please add the proxy IP and port number to the config.yml file
  
 # Contributing
 We welcome your contributions. Please feel free to fork the code, play with it, make some patches and send us pull requests.
diff --git a/config.yml b/config.yml
index f124022..cead5fc 100644
--- a/config.yml
+++ b/config.yml
@@ -31,4 +31,7 @@ Limit: 10
 
 Apikey: bda5818cc2af461e98330ccdf6fb9cbe
 
+ProxyIP:
+ProxyPortNumber:
+
     
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