diff --git a/apps/api/src/controllers/v1/types.ts b/apps/api/src/controllers/v1/types.ts
index f03d014a..da8847a8 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/controllers/v1/types.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/controllers/v1/types.ts
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ const crawlerOptions = z.object({
   allowExternalLinks: z.boolean().default(false),
   allowSubdomains: z.boolean().default(false),
   ignoreRobotsTxt: z.boolean().default(false),
-  ignoreSitemap: z.boolean().default(true),
+  ignoreSitemap: z.boolean().default(false),
   deduplicateSimilarURLs: z.boolean().default(true),
   ignoreQueryParameters: z.boolean().default(false),
 }).strict(strictMessage);