diff --git a/pyvulnerabilitylookup/api.py b/pyvulnerabilitylookup/api.py
index b8969dd..1bc6003 100644
--- a/pyvulnerabilitylookup/api.py
+++ b/pyvulnerabilitylookup/api.py
@@ -11,10 +11,13 @@
 
 class PyVulnerabilityLookup():
 
-    def __init__(self, root_url: str, useragent: Optional[str]=None):
+    def __init__(self, root_url: str, useragent: Optional[str]=None,
+                 *, proxies: Optional[Dict[str, str]]=None):
         '''Query a specific instance.
 
         :param root_url: URL of the instance to query.
+        :param useragent: The User Agent used by requests to run the HTTP requests against the vulnerability lookup instance
+        :param proxies: The proxies to use to connect to the vulnerability lookup instance - More details: https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/advanced/#proxies
         '''
         self.root_url = root_url
 
@@ -24,6 +27,8 @@ def __init__(self, root_url: str, useragent: Optional[str]=None):
             self.root_url += '/'
         self.session = requests.session()
         self.session.headers['user-agent'] = useragent if useragent else f'PyProject / {version("pyvulnerabilitylookup")}'
+        if proxies:
+            self.session.proxies.update(proxies)
 
     @property
     def is_up(self) -> bool: