diff --git a/lncrawl/core/scraper.py b/lncrawl/core/scraper.py
index 540df8d87..afd9c0c64 100644
--- a/lncrawl/core/scraper.py
+++ b/lncrawl/core/scraper.py
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ def submit_form_json(
         )
         return response.json()
 
-    def get_soup(self, url, headers={}, parser=None, **kwargs) -> BeautifulSoup:
+    def get_soup(self, url, headers={}, parser=None, encoding=None, **kwargs) -> BeautifulSoup:
         """Fetch the content and return a BeautifulSoup instance of the page"""
         headers = CaseInsensitiveDict(headers)
         headers.setdefault(
@@ -294,10 +294,10 @@ def get_soup(self, url, headers={}, parser=None, **kwargs) -> BeautifulSoup:
         )
         response = self.get_response(url, **kwargs)
         self.last_soup_url = url
-        return self.make_soup(response, parser)
+        return self.make_soup(response, parser, encoding)
 
     def post_soup(
-        self, url, data={}, headers={}, parser=None, **kwargs
+        self, url, data={}, headers={}, parser=None, encoding=None, **kwargs
     ) -> BeautifulSoup:
         """Make a POST request and return BeautifulSoup instance of the response"""
         headers = CaseInsensitiveDict(headers)
@@ -306,10 +306,10 @@ def post_soup(
             "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9",
         )
         response = self.post_response(url, data=data, headers=headers, **kwargs)
-        return self.make_soup(response, parser)
+        return self.make_soup(response, parser, encoding)
 
     def submit_form_for_soup(
-        self, url, data={}, headers={}, multipart=False, parser=None, **kwargs
+        self, url, data={}, headers={}, multipart=False, parser=None, encoding=None, **kwargs
     ) -> BeautifulSoup:
         """Simulate submit form request and return a BeautifulSoup instance of the response"""
         headers = CaseInsensitiveDict(headers)
@@ -320,4 +320,4 @@ def submit_form_for_soup(
         response = self.submit_form(
             url, data=data, headers=headers, multipart=multipart, **kwargs
         )
-        return self.make_soup(response, parser)
+        return self.make_soup(response, parser, encoding)
diff --git a/lncrawl/core/soup.py b/lncrawl/core/soup.py
index db5e0dd1d..12afb8f37 100644
--- a/lncrawl/core/soup.py
+++ b/lncrawl/core/soup.py
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
 
 from .exeptions import LNException
 
+import chardet
+
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
@@ -33,11 +35,16 @@ def make_soup(
         self,
         data: Union[Response, bytes, str],
         parser: Optional[str] = None,
+        encoding: Optional[str] = None,
     ) -> BeautifulSoup:
         if isinstance(data, Response):
-            html = data.content.decode("utf8", "ignore")
+            if encoding is None:
+                encoding = chardet.detect(data.content)["encoding"]
+            html = data.content.decode(encoding, "ignore")
         elif isinstance(data, bytes):
-            html = data.decode("utf8", "ignore")
+            if encoding is None:
+                encoding = chardet.detect(data)["encoding"]
+            html = data.decode(encoding, "ignore")
         elif isinstance(data, str):
             html = str(data)
         else: