diff --git a/libs/langchain/langchain/document_loaders/recursive_url_loader.py b/libs/langchain/langchain/document_loaders/recursive_url_loader.py
index 60ee27013e9b5..ea5e730d9e78b 100644
--- a/libs/langchain/langchain/document_loaders/recursive_url_loader.py
+++ b/libs/langchain/langchain/document_loaders/recursive_url_loader.py
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@
 from typing import (
     TYPE_CHECKING,
     Callable,
+    Iterable,
     Iterator,
     List,
     Optional,
-    Sequence,
     Set,
     Union,
 )
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ def __init__(
         use_async: Optional[bool] = None,
         extractor: Optional[Callable[[str], str]] = None,
         metadata_extractor: Optional[Callable[[str, str], str]] = None,
-        exclude_dirs: Optional[Sequence[str]] = (),
+        exclude_dirs: Optional[Iterable[str]] = None,
         timeout: Optional[int] = 10,
         prevent_outside: Optional[bool] = True,
         link_regex: Union[str, re.Pattern, None] = None,