diff --git a/src/main/java/com/rarchives/ripme/ripper/AbstractHTMLRipper.java b/src/main/java/com/rarchives/ripme/ripper/AbstractHTMLRipper.java
index 6380a1c6..7f3509b1 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/rarchives/ripme/ripper/AbstractHTMLRipper.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/rarchives/ripme/ripper/AbstractHTMLRipper.java
@@ -342,6 +342,9 @@ public abstract class AbstractHTMLRipper extends AbstractRipper {
             LOGGER.info("[!] Skipping " + url + " -- already attempted: " + Utils.removeCWD(saveAs));
             return false;
         }
+        if (shouldIgnoreURL(url)) {
+            return false;
+        }
         if (Utils.getConfigBoolean("urls_only.save", false)) {
             // Output URL to file
             Path urlFile = Paths.get(this.workingDir + "/urls.txt");
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/rarchives/ripme/ripper/AbstractJSONRipper.java b/src/main/java/com/rarchives/ripme/ripper/AbstractJSONRipper.java
index 523a8ab8..31f94cde 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/rarchives/ripme/ripper/AbstractJSONRipper.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/rarchives/ripme/ripper/AbstractJSONRipper.java
@@ -160,6 +160,9 @@ public abstract class AbstractJSONRipper extends AbstractRipper {
             LOGGER.info("[!] Skipping " + url + " -- already attempted: " + Utils.removeCWD(saveAs));
             return false;
         }
+        if (shouldIgnoreURL(url)) {
+            return false;
+        }
         if (Utils.getConfigBoolean("urls_only.save", false)) {
             // Output URL to file
             Path urlFile = Paths.get(this.workingDir + "/urls.txt");
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/rarchives/ripme/ripper/AbstractRipper.java b/src/main/java/com/rarchives/ripme/ripper/AbstractRipper.java
index 1a25af18..fa58b5c1 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/rarchives/ripme/ripper/AbstractRipper.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/rarchives/ripme/ripper/AbstractRipper.java
@@ -699,4 +699,18 @@ public abstract class AbstractRipper
     protected boolean useByteProgessBar() { return false;}
     // If true ripme will try to resume a broken download for this ripper
     protected boolean tryResumeDownload() { return false;}
+
+    protected boolean shouldIgnoreURL(URL url) {
+        final String[] ignoredExtensions = Utils.getConfigStringArray("download.ignore_extensions");
+        if (ignoredExtensions == null || ignoredExtensions.length == 0) return false; // nothing ignored
+        String[] pathElements = url.getPath().split("\\.");
+        if (pathElements.length == 0) return false; // no extension, can't filter
+        String extension = pathElements[pathElements.length - 1];
+        for (String ignoredExtension : ignoredExtensions) {
+            if (ignoredExtension.equalsIgnoreCase(extension)) {
+                return true;
+            }
+        }
+        return false;
+    }
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/rarchives/ripme/ripper/AlbumRipper.java b/src/main/java/com/rarchives/ripme/ripper/AlbumRipper.java
index 96c352f5..94d506e3 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/rarchives/ripme/ripper/AlbumRipper.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/rarchives/ripme/ripper/AlbumRipper.java
@@ -70,6 +70,9 @@ public abstract class AlbumRipper extends AbstractRipper {
             LOGGER.info("[!] Skipping " + url + " -- already attempted: " + Utils.removeCWD(saveAs));
             return false;
         }
+        if (shouldIgnoreURL(url)) {
+            return false;
+        }
         if (Utils.getConfigBoolean("urls_only.save", false)) {
             // Output URL to file
             Path urlFile = Paths.get(this.workingDir + "/urls.txt");
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/rarchives/ripme/ripper/VideoRipper.java b/src/main/java/com/rarchives/ripme/ripper/VideoRipper.java
index cd4c95b3..391ce2f4 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/rarchives/ripme/ripper/VideoRipper.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/rarchives/ripme/ripper/VideoRipper.java
@@ -68,6 +68,9 @@ public abstract class VideoRipper extends AbstractRipper {
                 this.url = url;
                 return true;
             }
+            if (shouldIgnoreURL(url)) {
+                return false;
+            }
             threadPool.addThread(new DownloadVideoThread(url, saveAs, this));
         }
         return true;
diff --git a/src/main/resources/rip.properties b/src/main/resources/rip.properties
index cac0c1f1..35d6c123 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/rip.properties
+++ b/src/main/resources/rip.properties
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ page.timeout = 5000
 # Maximum size of downloaded files in bytes (required)
 download.max_size = 104857600
 
+# Any URLs ending with one of these comma-separated values will be skipped
+#download.ignore_extensions = mp4,gif,m4v,webm,html
+
 # Don't retry on 404 errors
 error.skip404 = true