diff --git a/crawler.js b/crawler.js
index 018d26f..8c221fb 100644
--- a/crawler.js
+++ b/crawler.js
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ class BlockCrawler extends EventEmitter {
     }
     var shouldCrawl = this.shouldCrawl;
     var allowedDomains = this.allowedDomains;
+    var forceHttps = this.forceHttps;
     return function(context) {
 
       var $;
@@ -93,7 +94,11 @@ class BlockCrawler extends EventEmitter {
         targetHref = $this.attr("href");
         absoluteTargetUrl = urlMod.resolve(context.url, targetHref);
         urlObj = urlMod.parse(absoluteTargetUrl);
-        protocol = urlObj.protocol;
+        if(forceHttps){
+          protocol = 'https'
+        }else{
+          protocol = urlObj.protocol;
+        }
         hostname = urlObj.hostname;
 
 
@@ -121,6 +126,7 @@ class BlockCrawler extends EventEmitter {
     this.proxyUri = argv.proxy;
     this.redisserver = argv.redisserver;
     this.debug = argv.debug;
+    this.forceHttps = argv.force_https;
     var _allowed_domains = argv.allowed_domains;
     if (undefined != _allowed_domains) {
       try{
diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index 22222f6..130be2d 100644
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -47,6 +47,11 @@ const argv = require('yargs')
     type: 'string',
     description: 'hostname:UrlPattern JSON object for allowed domains'
   })
+  .option('force_https',{
+    type: 'boolean',
+    description: "Force https instead of http",
+    default: true
+  })
   //.demandCommand(1)
   .argv;