diff --git a/surfsense_backend/app/utils/webcrawler_utils.py b/surfsense_backend/app/utils/webcrawler_utils.py
index d6baf6d73..05633de4f 100644
--- a/surfsense_backend/app/utils/webcrawler_utils.py
+++ b/surfsense_backend/app/utils/webcrawler_utils.py
@@ -1,8 +1,5 @@
 """
 Utility functions for webcrawler connector.
-
-This module is intentionally kept separate from the connector_indexers package
-to avoid circular import issues.
 """
 
 
@@ -24,6 +21,6 @@ def parse_webcrawler_urls(initial_urls: str | list | None) -> list[str]:
     if isinstance(initial_urls, str):
         return [url.strip() for url in initial_urls.split("\n") if url.strip()]
     elif isinstance(initial_urls, list):
-        return [url.strip() for url in initial_urls if url.strip()]
+        return [url.strip() for url in initial_urls if isinstance(url, str) and url.strip()]
     else:
         return []