diff --git a/src/api/api.controller.ts b/src/api/api.controller.ts
index 61e3f6e..2325bb9 100644
--- a/src/api/api.controller.ts
+++ b/src/api/api.controller.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { Controller, Post } from '@nestjs/common';
+import { Body, Controller, Post } from '@nestjs/common';
 import { CrawlerService } from '../crawler/crawler.service';
 
 @Controller('/')
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@ export class ApiController {
 
   constructor(private crawlerService: CrawlerService) {}
   // Have an HTTP endpoint, "/crawl" with a JSON body "{ url: string }" that activates the crawling on the specified website.
-  @Post("/crawl")
-  crawl(){
-    // invoke crawler service
-    return this.crawlerService.crawl();
+  // this route should accept a POST request 
+  @Post('crawl')
+  async crawl(@Body() body: { url: string }) {
+    return this.crawlerService.crawl(body.url);
   }
 
 
diff --git a/src/crawler/crawler.service.ts b/src/crawler/crawler.service.ts
index eb90207..093fe81 100644
--- a/src/crawler/crawler.service.ts
+++ b/src/crawler/crawler.service.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import { Injectable } from '@nestjs/common';
 @Injectable()
 export class CrawlerService {
 
-  crawl(){
-    return "Crawling...";
+  async crawl(url: string){
+    return `Crawling... ${url}`;
   }
 }