diff --git a/src/api/crawler.ts b/src/api/crawler.ts
index c5679bcd..c52e5af3 100644
--- a/src/api/crawler.ts
+++ b/src/api/crawler.ts
@@ -1021,6 +1021,9 @@ export class CrawlerHost extends RPCHost {
         if (opts.markdown) {
             this.threadLocal.set('turndownOpts', opts.markdown);
         }
+        if (opts.freshness) {
+            this.threadLocal.set('x-brave-freshness', opts.freshness);
+        }
 
         const crawlOpts: ExtraScrappingOptions = {
             proxyUrl: opts.proxyUrl,
diff --git a/src/dto/crawler-options.ts b/src/dto/crawler-options.ts
index 01dea593..487aa95c 100644
--- a/src/dto/crawler-options.ts
+++ b/src/dto/crawler-options.ts
@@ -429,6 +429,9 @@ export class CrawlerOptions extends AutoCastable {
     })
     respondTiming?: RESPOND_TIMING;
 
+    @Prop()
+    freshness?: string;
+
     _hintIps?: string[];
 
     static override from(input: any) {
@@ -589,6 +592,11 @@ export class CrawlerOptions extends AutoCastable {
             instance.respondTiming ??= respondTiming as RESPOND_TIMING;
         }
 
+        const freshness = ctx?.get('x-brave-freshness');
+        if (freshness && /^(pd|pw|pm|py|\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}to\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2})$/.test(freshness)) {
+            instance.freshness ??= freshness;
+        }
+
         if (instance.cacheTolerance) {
             instance.cacheTolerance = instance.cacheTolerance * 1000;
         }
diff --git a/src/services/brave-search.ts b/src/services/brave-search.ts
index 8dcfe2cd..b6f01548 100644
--- a/src/services/brave-search.ts
+++ b/src/services/brave-search.ts
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ export class BraveSearchService extends AsyncService {
         this.braveSearchHTTP = new BraveSearchHTTP(this.secretExposer.BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY);
     }
 
-    async webSearch(query: WebSearchQueryParams) {
+    async webSearch(query: WebSearchQueryParams & { freshness?: string }) {
         const ip = this.threadLocal.get('ip');
         const extraHeaders: WebSearchOptionalHeaderOptions = {};
         if (ip) {
@@ -61,11 +61,16 @@ export class BraveSearchService extends AsyncService {
             extraHeaders['User-Agent'] = this.threadLocal.get('userAgent');
         }
 
-        const encoded = { ...query };
+        const encoded: Record<string, any> = { ...query };
         if (encoded.q) {
             encoded.q = (Buffer.from(encoded.q).toString('ascii') === encoded.q) ? encoded.q : encodeURIComponent(encoded.q);
         }
 
+        const freshness = this.threadLocal.get('x-brave-freshness') || query.freshness;
+        if (freshness) {
+            encoded.freshness = freshness;
+        }
+
         let maxTries = 11;
 
         while (maxTries--) {