diff --git a/collector/index.js b/collector/index.js
index b307b58a45a..73091efcdee 100644
--- a/collector/index.js
+++ b/collector/index.js
@@ -62,9 +62,13 @@ app.post(
   "/process-link",
   [verifyPayloadIntegrity],
   async function (request, response) {
-    const { link } = reqBody(request);
+    const { link, scraperHeaders = {} } = reqBody(request);
     try {
-      const { success, reason, documents = [] } = await processLink(link);
+      const {
+        success,
+        reason,
+        documents = [],
+      } = await processLink(link, scraperHeaders);
       response.status(200).json({ url: link, success, reason, documents });
     } catch (e) {
       console.error(e);
diff --git a/collector/processLink/convert/generic.js b/collector/processLink/convert/generic.js
index a22166d4ce2..fd85d6a61ff 100644
--- a/collector/processLink/convert/generic.js
+++ b/collector/processLink/convert/generic.js
@@ -8,18 +8,25 @@ const { default: slugify } = require("slugify");
 
 /**
  * Scrape a generic URL and return the content in the specified format
- * @param {string} link - The URL to scrape
- * @param {('html' | 'text')} captureAs - The format to capture the page content as
- * @param {boolean} processAsDocument - Whether to process the content as a document or return the content directly
+ * @param {Object} config - The configuration object
+ * @param {string} config.link - The URL to scrape
+ * @param {('html' | 'text')} config.captureAs - The format to capture the page content as. Default is 'text'
+ * @param {boolean} config.processAsDocument - Whether to process the content as a document or return the content directly. Default is true
+ * @param {{[key: string]: string}} config.scraperHeaders - Custom headers to use when making the request
  * @returns {Promise<Object>} - The content of the page
  */
-async function scrapeGenericUrl(
+async function scrapeGenericUrl({
   link,
   captureAs = "text",
-  processAsDocument = true
-) {
+  processAsDocument = true,
+  scraperHeaders = {},
+}) {
   console.log(`-- Working URL ${link} => (${captureAs}) --`);
-  const content = await getPageContent(link, captureAs);
+  const content = await getPageContent({
+    link,
+    captureAs,
+    headers: scraperHeaders,
+  });
 
   if (!content.length) {
     console.error(`Resulting URL content was empty at ${link}.`);
@@ -63,13 +70,38 @@ async function scrapeGenericUrl(
   return { success: true, reason: null, documents: [document] };
 }
 
+/**
+ * Validate the headers object
+ * - Keys & Values must be strings and not empty
+ * - Assemble a new object with only the valid keys and values
+ * @param {{[key: string]: string}} headers - The headers object to validate
+ * @returns {{[key: string]: string}} - The validated headers object
+ */
+function validatedHeaders(headers = {}) {
+  try {
+    if (Object.keys(headers).length === 0) return {};
+    let validHeaders = {};
+    for (const key of Object.keys(headers)) {
+      if (!key?.trim()) continue;
+      if (typeof headers[key] !== "string" || !headers[key]?.trim()) continue;
+      validHeaders[key] = headers[key].trim();
+    }
+    return validHeaders;
+  } catch (error) {
+    console.error("Error validating headers", error);
+    return {};
+  }
+}
+
 /**
  * Get the content of a page
- * @param {string} link - The URL to get the content of
- * @param {('html' | 'text')} captureAs - The format to capture the page content as
+ * @param {Object} config - The configuration object
+ * @param {string} config.link - The URL to get the content of
+ * @param {('html' | 'text')} config.captureAs - The format to capture the page content as. Default is 'text'
+ * @param {{[key: string]: string}} config.headers - Custom headers to use when making the request
  * @returns {Promise<string>} - The content of the page
  */
-async function getPageContent(link, captureAs = "text") {
+async function getPageContent({ link, captureAs = "text", headers = {} }) {
   try {
     let pageContents = [];
     const loader = new PuppeteerWebBaseLoader(link, {
@@ -91,12 +123,37 @@ async function getPageContent(link, captureAs = "text") {
       },
     });
 
-    const docs = await loader.load();
+    // Override scrape method if headers are available
+    let overrideHeaders = validatedHeaders(headers);
+    if (Object.keys(overrideHeaders).length > 0) {
+      loader.scrape = async function () {
+        const { launch } = await PuppeteerWebBaseLoader.imports();
+        const browser = await launch({
+          headless: "new",
+          defaultViewport: null,
+          ignoreDefaultArgs: ["--disable-extensions"],
+          ...this.options?.launchOptions,
+        });
+        const page = await browser.newPage();
+        await page.setExtraHTTPHeaders(overrideHeaders);
+
+        await page.goto(this.webPath, {
+          timeout: 180000,
+          waitUntil: "networkidle2",
+          ...this.options?.gotoOptions,
+        });
 
-    for (const doc of docs) {
-      pageContents.push(doc.pageContent);
+        const bodyHTML = this.options?.evaluate
+          ? await this.options.evaluate(page, browser)
+          : await page.evaluate(() => document.body.innerHTML);
+
+        await browser.close();
+        return bodyHTML;
+      };
     }
 
+    const docs = await loader.load();
+    for (const doc of docs) pageContents.push(doc.pageContent);
     return pageContents.join(" ");
   } catch (error) {
     console.error(
@@ -112,6 +169,7 @@ async function getPageContent(link, captureAs = "text") {
         "Content-Type": "text/plain",
         "User-Agent":
           "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/85.0.4183.83 Safari/537.36,gzip(gfe)",
+        ...validatedHeaders(headers),
       },
     }).then((res) => res.text());
     return pageText;
diff --git a/collector/processLink/index.js b/collector/processLink/index.js
index ac0c5916b07..819b1863f94 100644
--- a/collector/processLink/index.js
+++ b/collector/processLink/index.js
@@ -1,20 +1,37 @@
 const { validURL } = require("../utils/url");
 const { scrapeGenericUrl } = require("./convert/generic");
 
-async function processLink(link) {
+/**
+ * Process a link and return the text content. This util will save the link as a document
+ * so it can be used for embedding later.
+ * @param {string} link - The link to process
+ * @param {{[key: string]: string}} scraperHeaders - Custom headers to apply when scraping the link
+ * @returns {Promise<{success: boolean, content: string}>} - Response from collector
+ */
+async function processLink(link, scraperHeaders = {}) {
   if (!validURL(link)) return { success: false, reason: "Not a valid URL." };
-  return await scrapeGenericUrl(link);
+  return await scrapeGenericUrl({
+    link,
+    captureAs: "text",
+    processAsDocument: true,
+    scraperHeaders,
+  });
 }
 
 /**
- * Get the text content of a link
+ * Get the text content of a link - does not save the link as a document
+ * Mostly used in agentic flows/tools calls to get the text content of a link
  * @param {string} link - The link to get the text content of
  * @param {('html' | 'text' | 'json')} captureAs - The format to capture the page content as
  * @returns {Promise<{success: boolean, content: string}>} - Response from collector
  */
 async function getLinkText(link, captureAs = "text") {
   if (!validURL(link)) return { success: false, reason: "Not a valid URL." };
-  return await scrapeGenericUrl(link, captureAs, false);
+  return await scrapeGenericUrl({
+    link,
+    captureAs,
+    processAsDocument: false,
+  });
 }
 
 module.exports = {
diff --git a/server/endpoints/api/document/index.js b/server/endpoints/api/document/index.js
index 56175142052..0795be7a3f8 100644
--- a/server/endpoints/api/document/index.js
+++ b/server/endpoints/api/document/index.js
@@ -322,7 +322,11 @@ function apiDocumentEndpoints(app) {
               type: 'object',
               example: {
                 "link": "https://anythingllm.com",
-                "addToWorkspaces": "workspace1,workspace2"
+                "addToWorkspaces": "workspace1,workspace2",
+                "scraperHeaders": {
+                  "Authorization": "Bearer token123",
+                  "My-Custom-Header": "value"
+                }
               }
             }
           }
@@ -365,7 +369,11 @@ function apiDocumentEndpoints(app) {
     */
       try {
         const Collector = new CollectorApi();
-        const { link, addToWorkspaces = "" } = reqBody(request);
+        const {
+          link,
+          addToWorkspaces = "",
+          scraperHeaders = {},
+        } = reqBody(request);
         const processingOnline = await Collector.online();
 
         if (!processingOnline) {
@@ -379,8 +387,10 @@ function apiDocumentEndpoints(app) {
           return;
         }
 
-        const { success, reason, documents } =
-          await Collector.processLink(link);
+        const { success, reason, documents } = await Collector.processLink(
+          link,
+          scraperHeaders
+        );
         if (!success) {
           response
             .status(500)
diff --git a/server/swagger/openapi.json b/server/swagger/openapi.json
index 3ae58b0e8af..15b041c0878 100644
--- a/server/swagger/openapi.json
+++ b/server/swagger/openapi.json
@@ -1092,7 +1092,11 @@
                 "type": "object",
                 "example": {
                   "link": "https://anythingllm.com",
-                  "addToWorkspaces": "workspace1,workspace2"
+                  "addToWorkspaces": "workspace1,workspace2",
+                  "scraperHeaders": {
+                    "Authorization": "Bearer token123",
+                    "My-Custom-Header": "value"
+                  }
                 }
               }
             }
diff --git a/server/utils/collectorApi/index.js b/server/utils/collectorApi/index.js
index 29fc8f5dbac..d7953ce2209 100644
--- a/server/utils/collectorApi/index.js
+++ b/server/utils/collectorApi/index.js
@@ -101,12 +101,18 @@ class CollectorApi {
    * Process a link
    * - Will append the options to the request body
    * @param {string} link - The link to process
+   * @param {{[key: string]: string}} scraperHeaders - Custom headers to apply to the web-scraping request URL
    * @returns {Promise<Object>} - The response from the collector API
    */
-  async processLink(link = "") {
+  async processLink(link = "", scraperHeaders = {}) {
     if (!link) return false;
 
-    const data = JSON.stringify({ link, options: this.#attachOptions() });
+    const data = JSON.stringify({
+      link,
+      scraperHeaders,
+      options: this.#attachOptions(),
+    });
+
     return await fetch(`${this.endpoint}/process-link`, {
       method: "POST",
       headers: {