diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 6a905c0..c812132 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1104,6 +1104,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "time",
  "tokio",
  "tokio-rustls",
+ "tokio-socks",
  "tokio-util",
  "url",
  "wasm-bindgen",
@@ -1597,6 +1598,18 @@ dependencies = [
  "webpki",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "tokio-socks"
+version = "0.5.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "51165dfa029d2a65969413a6cc96f354b86b464498702f174a4efa13608fd8c0"
+dependencies = [
+ "either",
+ "futures-util",
+ "thiserror",
+ "tokio",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "tokio-util"
 version = "0.6.5"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index ce2ec71..374a592 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ edition = "2018"
 # See more keys and their definitions at https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html
 
 [dependencies]
-reqwest = { version = "0.11.0", default-features = false, features = ["cookies", "gzip", "json", "rustls-tls", "stream"] }
+reqwest = { version = "0.11.0", default-features = false, features = ["cookies", "gzip", "json", "rustls-tls", "stream", "socks"] }
 tokio = { version = "1.0.2", features = ["fs", "macros", "net", "rt-multi-thread"] }
 tokio-util = { version = "0.6.1", features = ["io"] }
 serde_json = "1.0.51"
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index 50af630..09dcf8d 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ use ignore::gitignore::Gitignore;
 use lazy_static::lazy_static;
 use parking_lot::Mutex;
 use regex::Regex;
-use reqwest::Client;
+use reqwest::{Client, Proxy};
 use scraper::{ElementRef, Html, Selector};
 use serde_json::json;
 use structopt::StructOpt;
@@ -653,6 +653,10 @@ struct Opt {
 	/// Parallel download jobs
 	#[structopt(short, long, default_value = "1")]
 	jobs: usize,
+
+	/// Proxy, e.g. socks5://127.0.0.1:1080
+	#[structopt(short, long, default_value = "")]
+	proxy: String,
 }
 
 struct ILIAS {
@@ -668,9 +672,14 @@ impl ILIAS {
 	async fn login<S1: Into<String>, S2: Into<String>>(opt: Opt, user: S1, pass: S2, ignore: Gitignore) -> Result<Self> {
 		let user = user.into();
 		let pass = pass.into();
-		let client = Client::builder()
+		let mut builder = Client::builder()
 			.cookie_store(true)
-			.user_agent(concat!(env!("CARGO_PKG_NAME"), "/", env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION")))
+			.user_agent(concat!(env!("CARGO_PKG_NAME"), "/", env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION")));
+		if opt.proxy != "" {
+			let proxy = Proxy::all(&opt.proxy)?;
+			builder = builder.proxy(proxy);
+		}
+		let client = builder
 			// timeout is infinite by default
 			.build()?;
 		let this = ILIAS {