diff --git a/src/app/domain/jobs/controllers/job_posts.py b/src/app/domain/jobs/controllers/job_posts.py
index 00810142..1616f7ad 100644
--- a/src/app/domain/jobs/controllers/job_posts.py
+++ b/src/app/domain/jobs/controllers/job_posts.py
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ async def create_job_post_from_url(
         if job_link_domain.endswith("workable.com") or job_link_domain.endswith("linkedin.com"):
             render = True
 
-        html_content = await extract_url_content(data.url, render=render)
+        html_content = await extract_url_content(data.url, render=render, timeout=data.timeout)
         job_details = await extract_job_details_from_html(html_content)
 
         company_url = job_details.get("company", {}).get("url")
diff --git a/src/app/domain/jobs/schemas.py b/src/app/domain/jobs/schemas.py
index a74f24fc..4f83bb24 100644
--- a/src/app/domain/jobs/schemas.py
+++ b/src/app/domain/jobs/schemas.py
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ class JobPostCreateFromURL(CamelizedBaseStruct):
     """A job post create from URL schema."""
 
     url: str
+    timeout: float = 30.0
 
 
 class JobPostUpdate(CamelizedBaseStruct, omit_defaults=True):
diff --git a/src/app/lib/scraperapi.py b/src/app/lib/scraperapi.py
index 4457aa00..39360c5f 100644
--- a/src/app/lib/scraperapi.py
+++ b/src/app/lib/scraperapi.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 scraper_api_key = os.environ["SCRAPERAPI_API_KEY"]
 
 
-async def extract_url_content(url: str, render: bool = False) -> str:
+async def extract_url_content(url: str, render: bool = False, timeout=30.0) -> str:
     """Extracts URL content using a 3rd party service"""
     params = {
         "api_key": scraper_api_key,
@@ -17,6 +17,6 @@ async def extract_url_content(url: str, render: bool = False) -> str:
     }
 
     async with httpx.AsyncClient() as client:
-        response = await client.get("https://api.scraperapi.com", params=params, timeout=30.0)
+        response = await client.get("https://api.scraperapi.com", params=params, timeout=timeout)
         data = response.text
         return data