diff --git a/crawl4ai/async_crawler_strategy.py b/crawl4ai/async_crawler_strategy.py
index f18a3c1d..301d925f 100644
--- a/crawl4ai/async_crawler_strategy.py
+++ b/crawl4ai/async_crawler_strategy.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ from .browser_manager import BrowserManager
 
 import aiofiles
 import aiohttp
-import cchardet
+import chardet
 from aiohttp.client import ClientTimeout
 from urllib.parse import urlparse
 from types import MappingProxyType
@@ -1822,7 +1822,7 @@ class AsyncHTTPCrawlerStrategy(AsyncCrawlerStrategy):
                 
                 encoding = response.charset
                 if not encoding:
-                    encoding = cchardet.detect(content.tobytes())['encoding'] or 'utf-8'                    
+                    encoding = chardet.detect(content.tobytes())['encoding'] or 'utf-8'                    
                 
                 result = AsyncCrawlResponse(
                     html=content.tobytes().decode(encoding, errors='replace'),
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 247974c5..032e5cd6 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "fake-useragent>=2.0.3",
     "click>=8.1.7",
     "pyperclip>=1.8.2",
-    "faust-cchardet>=2.1.19",
+    "chardet>=5.2.0",
     "aiohttp>=3.11.11",
     "brotli>=1.1.0",
     "humanize>=4.10.0",
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 5fe0cc4c..0bb596d1 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -21,5 +21,5 @@ psutil>=6.1.1
 nltk>=3.9.1
 rich>=13.9.4
 cssselect>=1.2.0
-faust-cchardet>=2.1.19
+chardet>=5.2.0
 brotli>=1.1.0
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