diff --git a/utils/helpers.py b/utils/helpers.py
index 593494d..ce446ca 100644
--- a/utils/helpers.py
+++ b/utils/helpers.py
@@ -3,6 +3,35 @@
 Utilities to provide various misc functions.
 '''
 
+class ListManager(object):
+    '''
+    Object to manage the lifecycle of a pool of URLs.
+    '''
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.url_pool = dict()
+        self.not_crawled = 0
+        self.crawled = 1
+        self.invalid = 2
+
+    def check_duplicate(self, new_url):
+        for url, status in self.url_pool.items():
+            if url == new_url:
+                return True
+            else:
+                return False
+
+    def invalidate_url(self, url):
+        self.url_pool[url] = self.invalid
+
+    def add_to_list(self, url):
+        self.url_pool[url] = self.not_crawled
+        # calculate depth
+        # add link, crawled status to url_pool
+
+    def mark_as_crawled(self, url):
+        self.url_pool[url] = self.crawled
+
 
 def clean_base_url(url):
     '''