diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 1133d95..3cdbe34 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -29,7 +29,18 @@ To construct the `AoPS-Instruct` dataset:
    ```
    This will produce a raw jsonlines file: out/items_raw.jl to be processed in the next steps.
 
-   Note: To perform a test run to make sure the whole pipeline is working, in the crawling script, you can add the `test_mode` option to crawl only 1000 datapoints:
+   **Date Range Options**: You can specify the date range for crawling:
+   ```bash
+   # Crawl data from 2025 only
+   bash scripts/crawl_raw.sh --start_date "2025-01" --end_date "2025-12"
+
+   # Crawl data from a custom range
+   bash scripts/crawl_raw.sh --start_date "2020-01" --end_date "2025-12"
+   ```
+
+   The default configuration crawls **2025 data** (`START_DATE="2025-01"`, `END_DATE="2025-12"`).
+
+   **Test Mode**: To perform a test run to make sure the whole pipeline is working, you can add the `test_mode` option to crawl only 1000 datapoints:
    ```bash
    bash scripts/crawl_raw.sh --test_mode True
    ```
diff --git a/aops_crawler/aops_crawler/spiders/aops_spider.py b/aops_crawler/aops_crawler/spiders/aops_spider.py
index fdabd32..f41765a 100755
--- a/aops_crawler/aops_crawler/spiders/aops_spider.py
+++ b/aops_crawler/aops_crawler/spiders/aops_spider.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 class AOPSSpider(scrapy.Spider):
         name = 'aops'
-        MAX_TOPICS = 3_600_000
+        MAX_TOPICS = 5_000_000
         # start_urls = [f'https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c6h{i}' for i in range(1, 500)]
 
         def __init__(self, total_spiders=None, spider_idx=None, start_date='2000-01', test_mode=False, **kwargs):
diff --git a/scripts/crawl_raw.sh b/scripts/crawl_raw.sh
index 600e1c9..f1761bb 100644
--- a/scripts/crawl_raw.sh
+++ b/scripts/crawl_raw.sh
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ set -e  # Exit if any command fails
 
 # Default values
 TEST_MODE="False"
-START_DATE="2000-01"
-END_DATE="2024-12"
+START_DATE="2025-01"
+END_DATE="2025-12"
 ITEMS_RAW_PATH="../out/items_raw.jl"
 ITEMS_RAW_FILTERED_PATH="../out/items_filtered.jl"