diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b9aee6c..8ed16c1 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ The workflow file takes the following optional inputs:
 | `TOKEN` | No | The GitHub access token to allow us to retrieve, create and update issues for your repo. Default: `${{ github.token }}`. |
 | `CLOSE_ISSUES` | No | Optional boolean input that specifies whether to attempt to close an issue when a TODO is removed. Default: `true`. |
 | `AUTO_P` | No | Optional boolean input that specifies whether to format each line in multiline TODOs as a new paragraph. Default: `true`. |
+| `IGNORE` | No | Optional string input that provides comma-delimited regular expressions that match files in the repo that we should not scan for TODOs. By default, we will scan all files. |
 
 These can be specified in `with` in the workflow file.
 
diff --git a/action.yml b/action.yml
index c2cd07f..65cdf02 100644
--- a/action.yml
+++ b/action.yml
@@ -51,3 +51,6 @@ inputs:
   ORG_PROJECTS:
     description: "Default organisation projects"
     required: false
+  IGNORE:
+    description: "A collection of comma-delimited regular expression that matches files that should be ignored when searching for TODOs"
+    required: false
diff --git a/main.py b/main.py
index d99be2b..5327578 100644
--- a/main.py
+++ b/main.py
@@ -348,6 +348,8 @@ class TodoParser(object):
             if not filename_search:
                 continue
             curr_file = filename_search.group(0)
+            if self._should_ignore(curr_file):
+                continue
             curr_markers, curr_markdown_language = self._get_file_details(curr_file)
             if not curr_markers or not curr_markdown_language:
                 print(f'Could not check {curr_file} for TODOs as this language is not yet supported by default.')
@@ -604,6 +606,14 @@ class TodoParser(object):
             projects = list(filter(None, projects.split(',')))
         return projects
 
+    def _should_ignore(self, file):
+        ignore_patterns = os.getenv('INPUT_IGNORE', None)
+        if ignore_patterns:
+            for pattern in filter(None, [pattern.strip() for pattern in ignore_patterns.split(',')]):
+                if re.match(pattern, file):
+                    return True
+        return False
+
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     # Create a basic client for communicating with GitHub, automatically initialised with environment variables.
diff --git a/tests/test_todo_parser.py b/tests/test_todo_parser.py
index 63d8d5e..3d44f55 100644
--- a/tests/test_todo_parser.py
+++ b/tests/test_todo_parser.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import os
 import unittest
 from main import TodoParser
 
@@ -52,3 +53,27 @@ class ClosedIssueTests(unittest.TestCase):
 
     def test_ruby_issues(self):
         self.assertEqual(count_issues_for_file_type(self.raw_issues, 'ruby'), 3)
+
+class IgnorePatternTests(unittest.TestCase):
+
+    def test_single_ignore(self):
+        os.environ['INPUT_IGNORE'] = '.*\.java'
+        diff_file = open('tests/test_new.diff', 'r')
+        self.raw_issues = TodoParser().parse(diff_file)
+        self.assertEqual(count_issues_for_file_type(self.raw_issues, 'python'), 2)
+        self.assertEqual(count_issues_for_file_type(self.raw_issues, 'yaml'), 2)
+        self.assertEqual(count_issues_for_file_type(self.raw_issues, 'php'), 4)
+        self.assertEqual(count_issues_for_file_type(self.raw_issues, 'java'), 0)
+        self.assertEqual(count_issues_for_file_type(self.raw_issues, 'ruby'), 3)
+        os.environ['INPUT_IGNORE'] = ''
+
+    def test_multiple_ignores(self):
+        os.environ['INPUT_IGNORE'] = '.*\.java, tests/example-file\.php'
+        diff_file = open('tests/test_new.diff', 'r')
+        self.raw_issues = TodoParser().parse(diff_file)
+        self.assertEqual(count_issues_for_file_type(self.raw_issues, 'python'), 2)
+        self.assertEqual(count_issues_for_file_type(self.raw_issues, 'yaml'), 2)
+        self.assertEqual(count_issues_for_file_type(self.raw_issues, 'php'), 0)
+        self.assertEqual(count_issues_for_file_type(self.raw_issues, 'java'), 0)
+        self.assertEqual(count_issues_for_file_type(self.raw_issues, 'ruby'), 3)
+        os.environ['INPUT_IGNORE'] = ''