diff --git a/src/caoscrawler/crawl.py b/src/caoscrawler/crawl.py
index b2c9ae32055edb3dc192df6797d9857d67e3d264..3d844ad537475cf3c6b6687180a754cc8d982932 100644
--- a/src/caoscrawler/crawl.py
+++ b/src/caoscrawler/crawl.py
@@ -450,7 +450,9 @@ class Crawler(object):
         self.start_crawling(Directory(dir_structure_name,
                                       dirname),
                             crawler_definition,
-                            converter_registry)
+                            converter_registry,
+                            restricted_path=restricted_path
+                            )
 
     @staticmethod
     def initialize_converters(crawler_definition: dict, converter_registry: dict):