diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 3a6cfbd..b458689 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ version = "0.1.0"
 [dependencies]
 actix-web = "4.3.1"
 image = "0.24.6"
-libwebp-sys = "0.9.2"
+libwebp-sys = { version = "0.9.2", optional = true }
 mimalloc = "0.1.37"
 once_cell = "1.18.0"
 qstring = "0.7.2"
@@ -19,4 +19,6 @@ reqwest = { version = "0.11.18", features = ["rustls-tls", "stream", "brotli", "
 tokio = { version = "1.29.1", features = ["full"] }
 
 [features]
+default = ["webp"]
 avif = ["dep:ravif", "dep:rgb"]
+webp = ["dep:libwebp-sys"]
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index a105066..aa74be1 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
 use std::env;
 use std::error::Error;
 
+use actix_web::{App, HttpRequest, HttpResponse, HttpResponseBuilder, HttpServer, web};
 use actix_web::http::Method;
-use actix_web::{web, App, HttpRequest, HttpResponse, HttpResponseBuilder, HttpServer};
-use libwebp_sys::{WebPEncodeRGB, WebPFree};
 use mimalloc::MiMalloc;
 use once_cell::sync::Lazy;
 use qstring::QString;
@@ -28,8 +27,8 @@ async fn main() -> std::io::Result<()> {
         let bind = env::var("BIND").unwrap_or_else(|_| "0.0.0.0:8080".to_string());
         server.bind(bind)?
     }
-    .run()
-    .await
+        .run()
+        .await
 }
 
 static RE_DOMAIN: Lazy<Regex> =
@@ -221,7 +220,10 @@ async fn index(req: HttpRequest) -> Result<HttpResponse, Box<dyn Error>> {
                 };
             }
 
+            #[cfg(feature = "webp")]
             if content_type == "image/jpeg" {
+                use libwebp_sys::{WebPEncodeRGB, WebPFree};
+
                 let resp_bytes = resp.bytes().await.unwrap();
 
                 let image = image::load_from_memory(&resp_bytes).unwrap();
@@ -256,6 +258,7 @@ async fn index(req: HttpRequest) -> Result<HttpResponse, Box<dyn Error>> {
                 response.content_type("image/jpeg");
                 return Ok(response.body(resp_bytes));
             }
+
             if content_type == "application/x-mpegurl"
                 || content_type == "application/vnd.apple.mpegurl"
             {