diff --git a/apps/api/src/controllers/v1/batch-scrape.ts b/apps/api/src/controllers/v1/batch-scrape.ts
index 9fd5cc50..3830b1fe 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/controllers/v1/batch-scrape.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/controllers/v1/batch-scrape.ts
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ import { logCrawl } from "../../services/logging/crawl_log";
 import { getScrapeQueue } from "../../services/queue-service";
 import { getJobPriority } from "../../lib/job-priority";
 import { addScrapeJobs } from "../../services/queue-jobs";
+import { callWebhook } from "../../services/webhook";
 
 export async function batchScrapeController(
   req: RequestWithAuth<{}, CrawlResponse, BatchScrapeRequest>,
@@ -86,6 +87,10 @@ export async function batchScrapeController(
   );
   await addScrapeJobs(jobs);
 
+  if(req.body.webhook) {
+    await callWebhook(req.auth.team_id, id, null, req.body.webhook, true, "batch_scrape.started");
+  }
+
   const protocol = process.env.ENV === "local" ? req.protocol : "https";
   
   return res.status(200).json({
diff --git a/apps/api/src/types.ts b/apps/api/src/types.ts
index d7821407..cc04ca18 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/types.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/types.ts
@@ -166,4 +166,4 @@ export type PlanType =
   | "";
 
 
-export type WebhookEventType = "crawl.page" | "batch_scrape.page" | "crawl.started" | "crawl.completed" | "batch_scrape.completed" | "crawl.failed";
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+export type WebhookEventType = "crawl.page" | "batch_scrape.page" | "crawl.started" | "batch_scrape.started" | "crawl.completed" | "batch_scrape.completed" | "crawl.failed";
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