diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 79b4e0e..39b9878 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ Options passed to the task include:
 | username                    |                                                                                                                                   |
 | password                    |                                                                                                                                   |
 | loginUrl                    | The URL for the login page that includes the social network buttons                                                               | https://www.example.com/login                  |
+| loginUrlCredentials         | Basic Authentication credentials for the `loginUrl`                                                                               | `{username: user, password: demo}`             |
 | args                        | string array which allows providing further arguments to puppeteer                                                                | `['--no-sandbox', '--disable-setuid-sandbox']` |
 | headless                    | Whether to run puppeteer in headless mode or not                                                                                  | true                                           |
 | logs                        | Whether to log interaction with the loginUrl website & cookie data                                                                | false                                          |
diff --git a/src/Plugins.js b/src/Plugins.js
index cddc22b..35f17f0 100644
--- a/src/Plugins.js
+++ b/src/Plugins.js
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ const fs = require('fs')
  * @param {options.username} string username
  * @param {options.password} string password
  * @param {options.loginUrl} string password
+ * @param {options.loginUrlCredentials} Object Basic Authentication credentials for the `loginUrl`
  * @param {options.args} array[string] string array which allows providing further arguments to puppeteer
  * @param {options.loginSelector} string a selector on the loginUrl page for the social provider button
  * @param {options.loginSelectorDelay} number delay a specific amount of time before clicking on the login button, defaults to 250ms. Pass a boolean false to avoid completely.
@@ -199,7 +200,9 @@ async function baseLoginConnect(
   await page.setUserAgent(
     'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0 Win64 x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/66.0.3359.181 Safari/537.36'
   )
-
+  if (options.loginUrlCredentials) {
+    await page.authenticate(options.loginUrlCredentials)
+  }
   await page.goto(options.loginUrl)
   await login({page, options})