diff --git a/api/src/main.py b/api/src/main.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..66929cfd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/api/src/main.py
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+from fastapi import FastAPI
+from scrapy import signals
+from scrapy.crawler import CrawlerProcess
+from scrapy.signalmanager import dispatcher
+from sample_spider import SampleSpider
+from contextlib import asynccontextmanager
+
+app = FastAPI()
+
+@asynccontextmanager
+async def lifespan(app: FastAPI):
+   
+    dispatcher.connect(start_crawler, signal=signals.engine_started)
+    process = CrawlerProcess(settings={
+        'USffER_AGENT': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36'
+    })
+    process.crawl(SampleSpider)
+    process.start()
+
+def start_crawler():
+    
+    spider = SampleSpider()
+    crawler = CrawlerProcess()
+    crawler.crawl(spider)
+    crawler.start()
+
+@app.get("/scrape")
+async def scrape_endpoint():
+    # Add your API endpoint logic here
+    # Retrieve and return the scraped data
+    return {"message": "Scraping in progress. Check logs for details."}
diff --git a/api/src/sample_spider.py b/api/src/sample_spider.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7f4d555e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/api/src/sample_spider.py
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+import scrapy
+
+class SampleSpider(scrapy.Spider):
+    name = 'SampleSpider'
+    start_urls = ['https://www.google.com/']
+
+    def parse(self, response):
+        print(response.body)
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diff --git a/ui/src/components/Topbar/index.tsx b/ui/src/components/Topbar/index.tsx
index f377ecf6..263434bc 100644
--- a/ui/src/components/Topbar/index.tsx
+++ b/ui/src/components/Topbar/index.tsx
@@ -33,19 +33,6 @@ const Topbar = () => {
       </Col>
       <Col span={4} className="lg:hidden flex justify-end">
         <FaBars className="text-2xl text-gray-600" />
-        <button className="text-gray-600 focus:outline-none" onClick={showDrawer}>
-          <svg
-            xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
-            fill="none"
-            viewBox="0 0 24 24"
-            strokeWidth="1.5"
-            strokeLinecap="round"
-            strokeLinejoin="round"
-            className="w-6 h-6"
-          >
-            <path d="M4 6h16v2H4zm0 5h16v2H4zm0 5h16v2H4z" />
-          </svg>
-        </button>
       </Col>
       <Drawer
         title="Navigation"