diff --git a/src/find_posts.py b/src/find_posts.py
index b1d1183edd14018c407125d8974eef6622a35b2d..86273d84db035c16ea78f25d83a6e52490ba679d 100644
--- a/src/find_posts.py
+++ b/src/find_posts.py
@@ -1,15 +1,28 @@
 import glob
+from typing import List, Pattern
 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
 from post import Post
 import logging
 
 DEFAULT_LANG = 'en'
 
-def find_post_paths(base_dir):
+def find_post_paths(base_dir: str) -> List[str]:
     files = glob.glob(base_dir + "/**/*.html", recursive=True)
     files = [f.replace("\\", "/") for f in files]
     return files
 
+def filter_by_regex(items: List[str], patterns: List[Pattern[str]]) -> List[str]:
+    items_to_return = []
+    for item in items:
+        should_add = True
+        for pattern in patterns:
+            if pattern.match(item) != None:
+                should_add = False
+                break
+        if should_add:
+            items_to_return.append(item)
+    return items_to_return
+
 def get_title_from_htmltree(htmltree: BeautifulSoup):
     title = htmltree.select_one('[data-elasticsearch-title]')
     if title == None:
@@ -68,8 +81,9 @@ def should_crawl_page(htmltree: BeautifulSoup) -> bool:
         return False
     return True
 
-def create_posts(base_dir):
+def create_posts(base_dir: str, patterns_to_exclude: List[Pattern]):
     paths = find_post_paths(base_dir)
+    paths = filter_by_regex(paths, patterns_to_exclude)
     posts = []
     for path in paths:
 
diff --git a/src/main.py b/src/main.py
index d6a0f3b6597a95811008fe32376fad11aa2b0c8a..383015d9f3ef68fc725faf89d1938c64549f6be5 100644
--- a/src/main.py
+++ b/src/main.py
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
+import re
 import sys
+from typing import List, Pattern
 from find_posts import create_posts
 import indexer
 from dotenv import load_dotenv
@@ -8,7 +10,7 @@ from folder_hash.hasher import Hasher
 
 load_dotenv()
 
-def index_folder(base_dir: str):
+def index_folder(base_dir: str, patterns_to_exclude: List[Pattern]):
     if not os.path.exists(base_dir):
         print(f"No folder was found at {base_dir}")
         return
@@ -30,23 +32,25 @@ def index_folder(base_dir: str):
 
     print("Finding posts in %s" % base_dir)
 
-    posts = create_posts(base_dir)
-    print("Posts created ({})".format(len(posts)))
+    posts = create_posts(base_dir, patterns_to_exclude)
+    print("Posts created")
 
     unique_languages = set([post.lang for post in posts])
 
     indexer.create_indexes(es, unique_languages, folder_hash)
     indexer.index_posts(es, posts, folder_hash)
-    print("Finished indexing posts")
+    print("Finished indexing posts (total of {})".format(len(posts)))
     
     print(f"Deleting all indexes except {folder_hash}")
     indexer.delete_all_indexes_except(es, folder_hash)
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     # provide blog base directory as arg
-    if len(sys.argv) != 2:
-        raise BaseException('You must pass the project folder to be crawled, and only it.')
+    if len(sys.argv) < 3:
+        raise BaseException('You must pass the project folder to be crawled.')
 
     base_dir = str(sys.argv[1])
 
-    index_folder(base_dir)
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+    patterns_to_exclude = [re.compile(p) for p in sys.argv[2:]]
+
+    index_folder(base_dir, patterns_to_exclude)
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