diff --git a/backend/app/tests/api/routes/documents/conftest.py b/backend/app/tests/api/routes/documents/conftest.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d36dc181
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backend/app/tests/api/routes/documents/conftest.py
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+import pytest
+from starlette.testclient import TestClient
+
+from app.tests.utils.auth import TestAuthContext
+from app.tests.utils.document import WebCrawler
+
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def crawler(client: TestClient, user_api_key: TestAuthContext) -> WebCrawler:
+    """Provides a WebCrawler instance for document API testing."""
+    return WebCrawler(client, user_api_key=user_api_key)
diff --git a/backend/app/tests/api/routes/documents/test_route_document_info.py b/backend/app/tests/api/routes/documents/test_route_document_info.py
index 5e6680b1..26198348 100644
--- a/backend/app/tests/api/routes/documents/test_route_document_info.py
+++ b/backend/app/tests/api/routes/documents/test_route_document_info.py
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
     DocumentStore,
     Route,
     WebCrawler,
-    crawler,
     httpx_to_standard,
 )
 
diff --git a/backend/app/tests/api/routes/documents/test_route_document_list.py b/backend/app/tests/api/routes/documents/test_route_document_list.py
index 9f4290c8..01a5e2ed 100644
--- a/backend/app/tests/api/routes/documents/test_route_document_list.py
+++ b/backend/app/tests/api/routes/documents/test_route_document_list.py
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
     DocumentStore,
     Route,
     WebCrawler,
-    crawler,
     httpx_to_standard,
 )
 
diff --git a/backend/app/tests/api/routes/documents/test_route_document_permanent_remove.py b/backend/app/tests/api/routes/documents/test_route_document_permanent_remove.py
index 7907e988..b0f02305 100644
--- a/backend/app/tests/api/routes/documents/test_route_document_permanent_remove.py
+++ b/backend/app/tests/api/routes/documents/test_route_document_permanent_remove.py
@@ -16,11 +16,10 @@
 from app.core.config import settings
 from app.models import Document
 from app.tests.utils.document import (
-    DocumentStore,
     DocumentMaker,
+    DocumentStore,
     Route,
     WebCrawler,
-    crawler,
 )
 
 
diff --git a/backend/app/tests/utils/document.py b/backend/app/tests/utils/document.py
index e339c1a0..bcb8b75f 100644
--- a/backend/app/tests/utils/document.py
+++ b/backend/app/tests/utils/document.py
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
 from dataclasses import dataclass
 from urllib.parse import ParseResult, urlunparse
 
-import pytest
 from httpx import Response
 from sqlmodel import Session, delete
 from fastapi.testclient import TestClient
@@ -164,8 +163,3 @@ def to_public_dict(self) -> dict:
             result[field] = self.to_string(value)
 
         return result
-
-
-@pytest.fixture
-def crawler(client: TestClient, user_api_key: TestAuthContext) -> WebCrawler:
-    return WebCrawler(client, user_api_key=user_api_key)