diff --git a/sitemapper.d.ts b/sitemapper.d.ts
index 67dc261..6e6105b 100644
--- a/sitemapper.d.ts
+++ b/sitemapper.d.ts
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ export interface SitemapperOptions {
   timeout?: number;
   url?: string;
   fields?: {[name: string]: boolean};
+  exclusions?: RegExp[];
 }
 
 declare class Sitemapper {
diff --git a/src/assets/sitemapper.js b/src/assets/sitemapper.js
index 811f443..9b32939 100644
--- a/src/assets/sitemapper.js
+++ b/src/assets/sitemapper.js
@@ -28,11 +28,13 @@ export default class Sitemapper {
    * @params {boolean} [options.rejectUnauthorized] - If true (default), it will throw on invalid certificates, such as expired or self-signed ones.
    * @params {lastmod} [options.lastmod] - the minimum lastmod value for urls
    * @params {hpagent.HttpProxyAgent|hpagent.HttpsProxyAgent} [options.proxyAgent] - instance of npm "hpagent" HttpProxyAgent or HttpsProxyAgent to be passed to npm "got"
+   * @params {Array<RegExp>} [options.exclusions] - Array of regex patterns to exclude URLs
    *
    * @example let sitemap = new Sitemapper({
    *   url: 'https://wp.seantburke.com/sitemap.xml',
    *   timeout: 15000,
-   *   lastmod: 1630693759
+   *   lastmod: 1630693759,
+   *   exclusions: [/foo.com/, /bar.xml/] // Filters out URLs matching these patterns
    *  });
    */
   constructor(options) {
@@ -49,6 +51,7 @@ export default class Sitemapper {
       settings.rejectUnauthorized === false ? false : true;
     this.fields = settings.fields || false;
     this.proxyAgent = settings.proxyAgent || {};
+    this.exclusions = settings.exclusions || [];
   }
 
   /**
@@ -319,6 +322,9 @@ export default class Sitemapper {
 
             return modified >= this.lastmod;
           })
+            .filter((site) => {
+              return !this.isExcluded(site.loc[0])
+            })
             .map((site) => {
               if( !this.fields) {
                 return site.loc && site.loc[0];
@@ -343,9 +349,11 @@ export default class Sitemapper {
           console.debug(`Additional sitemap found during "crawl('${url}')"`);
         }
         // Map each child url into a promise to create an array of promises
-        const sitemap = data.sitemapindex.sitemap.map(
-          (map) => map.loc && map.loc[0]
-        );
+        const sitemap = data.sitemapindex.sitemap
+          .map((map) => map.loc && map.loc[0])
+          .filter((url) => {
+            return !this.isExcluded(url)
+          });
 
         // Parse all child urls within the concurrency limit in the settings
         const limit = pLimit(this.concurrency);
@@ -446,6 +454,17 @@ export default class Sitemapper {
       });
     });
   }
+
+  /**
+    * Checks if a urls is excluded based on the exclusion patterns.
+    *
+    * @param {string} url - The URL to check.
+    * @returns {boolean} Returns true if the urls is excluded, false otherwise.
+    */
+  isExcluded(url) {
+    if (this.exclusions.length === 0) return false;
+    return this.exclusions.some((pattern) => pattern.test(url));
+  }
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/src/tests/test.js b/src/tests/test.js
index 7c4d0ca..77f65c7 100644
--- a/src/tests/test.js
+++ b/src/tests/test.js
@@ -263,4 +263,82 @@ describe('Sitemapper', function () {
       });
     });
   });
+
+  describe('exclusions option', function () {
+      // check for the url that should be excluded in a later test
+     it('should prevent false positive', function (done) {
+        this.timeout(30000);
+        const url = 'https://wp.seantburke.com/sitemap.xml';
+        // exclude video and image sitemap index urls
+        sitemapper.exclusions = [/video/,/image/]
+        sitemapper.fetch(url)
+          .then(data => {
+            data.sites.should.be.Array;
+            data.sites.includes('https://wp.seantburke.com/?page_id=2').should.be.true
+            done();
+          })
+          .catch(error => {
+            console.error('Test failed');
+            done(error);
+          });
+      });
+
+    it('should filter out page_id urls', function (done) {
+      this.timeout(30000);
+      const url = 'https://wp.seantburke.com/sitemap.xml';
+      // exclude page_id=2
+      sitemapper.exclusions = [/page_id/]
+      sitemapper.fetch(url)
+        .then(data => {
+          data.sites.should.be.Array;
+          data.sites.includes('https://wp.seantburke.com/?page_id=2').should.be.false;
+          done();
+        })
+        .catch(error => {
+          console.error('Test failed');
+          done(error);
+        });
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe('isExcluded method', function () {
+    it('should return false when no exclusions are set', function () {
+      const result = sitemapper.isExcluded('https://foo.com/page1');
+      result.should.be.false();
+    });
+
+    it('should return false when url does not match any exclusion patterns', function () {
+      sitemapper.exclusions = [/\.pdf$/, /private/];
+      const result = sitemapper.isExcluded('https://foo.com/page1');
+      result.should.be.false();
+    });
+
+    it('should return false when url matches an exclusion pattern', function () {
+      sitemapper.exclusions = [/\.pdf$/, /private/];
+      const result = sitemapper.isExcluded('https://foo.com/document.pdf');
+      result.should.be.true();
+    });
+
+    it('should return true when url matches any of multiple exclusion patterns', function () {
+      sitemapper.exclusions = [/\.pdf$/, /private/, /temp/];
+      const result = sitemapper.isExcluded('https://foo.com/private/temp.html');
+      result.should.be.true();
+    });
+
+    it('should handle complex regex patterns correctly', function () {
+      sitemapper.exclusions = [/^https:\/\/foo\.com\/([a-z]{2})\/private/]
+      const result1 = sitemapper.isExcluded('https://foo.com/en/private/page');
+      const result2 = sitemapper.isExcluded('https://foo.com/en/public/page');
+      result1.should.be.true();
+      result2.should.be.false();
+    });
+
+    it('should handle case sensitivity correctly', function () {
+      sitemapper.exclusions = [/private/i];
+      const result1 = sitemapper.isExcluded('https://foo.com/PRIVATE/page');
+      const result2 = sitemapper.isExcluded('https://foo.com/Private/page');
+      result1.should.be.true();
+      result2.should.be.true();
+    });
+  });
 });