diff --git a/google_scholar_crawler/main.py b/google_scholar_crawler/main.py
index c11810d93b8..fc8248652a1 100644
--- a/google_scholar_crawler/main.py
+++ b/google_scholar_crawler/main.py
@@ -1,9 +1,14 @@
-from scholarly import scholarly
+from scholarly import scholarly, ProxyGenerator
 import jsonpickle
 import json
 from datetime import datetime
 import os
 
+# Setup proxy
+pg = ProxyGenerator()
+pg.FreeProxies()  # Use free rotating proxies
+scholarly.use_proxy(pg)
+
 author: dict = scholarly.search_author_id(os.environ['GOOGLE_SCHOLAR_ID'])
 scholarly.fill(author, sections=['basics', 'indices', 'counts', 'publications'])
 name = author['name']
@@ -20,4 +25,4 @@
   "message": f"{author['citedby']}",
 }
 with open(f'results/gs_data_shieldsio.json', 'w') as outfile:
-    json.dump(shieldio_data, outfile, ensure_ascii=False)
+    json.dump(shieldio_data, outfile, ensure_ascii=False)
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diff --git a/google_scholar_crawler/requirements.txt b/google_scholar_crawler/requirements.txt
index 78ff257fa81..7f60cb35288 100644
--- a/google_scholar_crawler/requirements.txt
+++ b/google_scholar_crawler/requirements.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
-jsonpickle==1.4.2
-scholarly==1.5.1
+jsonpickle==4.0.5
+scholarly==1.7.11
+httpx==0.23.3
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