diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index fc9aee16..5ee95d1c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -6,6 +6,12 @@ Changelog
     Due to this library relying on external content, older versions are not guaranteed to work.
     Try to always use the latest version.
 
+.. _v2.3.0:
+
+2.3.0 (2019-09-16)
+==================
+- Added proxy option to client.
+
 .. _v2.2.6:
 
 2.2.6 (2019-09-01)
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index c9e6bb7f..ac662b63 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 beautifulsoup4
 lxml
-aiohttp
\ No newline at end of file
+aiohttp
+aiohttp-socks
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/serve.py b/serve.py
index 959e0cab..0bdc829c 100644
--- a/serve.py
+++ b/serve.py
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ async def middleware_handler(request):
 
 
 async def init_client(app):
-    app["tibiapy"] = tibiapy.Client()
+    app["tibiapy"] = tibiapy.Client(proxy_url='socks5://127.0.0.1:7744')
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     app = web.Application(middlewares=[error_middleware])
diff --git a/tibiapy/__init__.py b/tibiapy/__init__.py
index 72c3a7bd..e17ee2b1 100644
--- a/tibiapy/__init__.py
+++ b/tibiapy/__init__.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 from tibiapy.creature import *
 from tibiapy.client import *
 
-__version__ = '2.2.6'
+__version__ = '2.3.0'
 
 from logging import NullHandler
 
diff --git a/tibiapy/client.py b/tibiapy/client.py
index 312c1b79..582d7615 100644
--- a/tibiapy/client.py
+++ b/tibiapy/client.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 import datetime
 
 import aiohttp
+import aiohttp_socks
 
 import tibiapy
 from tibiapy import Character, Guild, World, House, KillStatistics, ListedGuild, Highscores, Category, VocationFilter, \
@@ -14,7 +15,7 @@
 
 
 class Client:
-    """An asynchronous client that fetches information from Tibia.com.ArithmeticError
+    """An asynchronous client that fetches information from Tibia.com
 
     The client uses a :class:`aiohttp.ClientSession` to request the information.
     A single session is shared across all operations.
@@ -29,20 +30,26 @@ class Client:
         The event loop to use. The default one will be used if not defined.
     session: :class:`aiohttp.ClientSession`
         The client session that will be used for the requests. One will be created by default.
+    proxy_url: :class:`str`
+        The URL of the SOCKS proxy to use for requests.
+        Note that if a session is passed, the SOCKS proxy won't be used and must be applied when creating the session.
     """
-    def __init__(self, loop=None, session=None):
+
+    def __init__(self, loop=None, session=None, *, proxy_url=None):
         self.loop = asyncio.get_event_loop() if loop is None else loop  # type: asyncio.AbstractEventLoop
         if session is not None:
             self.session = session  # type: aiohttp.ClientSession
         else:
-            self.loop.create_task(self._initialize_session())
+            self.loop.create_task(self._initialize_session(proxy_url))
 
-    async def _initialize_session(self):
+    async def _initialize_session(self, proxy_url=None):
         headers = {
             'User-Agent': "Tibia.py/%s (+https://github.com/Galarzaa90/tibia.py" % tibiapy.__version__,
             'Accept-Encoding': "deflate, gzip"
         }
-        self.session = aiohttp.ClientSession(loop=self.loop, headers=headers)  # type: aiohttp.ClientSession
+        connector = aiohttp_socks.SocksConnector.from_url(proxy_url) if proxy_url else None
+        self.session = aiohttp.ClientSession(loop=self.loop, headers=headers,
+                                             connector=connector)  # type: aiohttp.ClientSession
 
     @classmethod
     def _handle_status(cls, status_code):
@@ -81,6 +88,8 @@ async def _get(self, url):
                 return await resp.text()
         except aiohttp.ClientError as e:
             raise NetworkError("aiohttp.ClientError: %s" % e, e)
+        except aiohttp_socks.SocksConnectionError as e:
+            raise NetworkError("aiohttp_socks.SocksConnectionError: %s" % e, e)
 
     async def _post(self, url, data):
         """Base POST request, handling possible error statuses.