diff --git a/config.sample.json b/config.sample.json
index 61df370..4a9d46e 100644
--- a/config.sample.json
+++ b/config.sample.json
@@ -3,5 +3,6 @@
     "repository": "singer-io/target-stitch",
     "start_date": "2021-01-01T00:00:00Z",
     "request_timeout": 300,
-    "base_url": "https://api.github.com"
+    "base_url": "https://api.github.com",
+    "extract_archived": "false"
 }
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 2cbde14..37115bd 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 
 setup(name='tap-github',
-      version='2.0.13',
+      version='2.0.14',
       description='Singer.io tap for extracting data from the GitHub API',
       author='Stitch',
       url='http://singer.io',
diff --git a/tap_github/client.py b/tap_github/client.py
index e182462..18bf5e8 100644
--- a/tap_github/client.py
+++ b/tap_github/client.py
@@ -67,6 +67,10 @@ class RateLimitSleepExceeded(GithubException):
 class TooManyRequests(GithubException):
     pass
 
+# Thrown when repository is archived and extract_archived is not enabled
+class ArchivedRepositoryError(GithubException):
+    pass
+
 
 ERROR_CODE_EXCEPTION_MAPPING = {
     301: {
@@ -200,6 +204,9 @@ def __init__(self, config):
         self.set_auth_in_session()
         self.not_accessible_repos = set()
         self.max_per_page = self.config.get('max_per_page', DEFAULT_MAX_PER_PAGE)
+        # Convert string 'true'/'false' to boolean, default to False
+        extract_archived_value = str(self.config.get('extract_archived', 'false')).lower()
+        self.extract_archived = extract_archived_value == 'true'
 
     def get_request_timeout(self):
         """
@@ -282,9 +289,31 @@ def verify_repo_access(self, url_for_repo, repo):
             message = "HTTP-error-code: 404, Error: Please check the repository name \'{}\' or you do not have sufficient permissions to access this repository.".format(repo)
             raise NotFoundException(message) from None
 
+    def check_repo_archived(self, repo):
+        """
+        Check if a repository is archived and raise an error if extract_archived is not enabled.
+
+        Args:
+            repo: Repository in 'org/repo' format
+
+        Raises:
+            ArchivedRepositoryError: If repo is archived and extract_archived config is not true
+        """
+        url = "{}/repos/{}".format(self.base_url, repo)
+        response = self.authed_get_single_page("checking repository archived status", url, should_skip_404=False)
+        repo_info = response.json()
+
+        if repo_info.get('archived', False):
+            if not self.extract_archived:
+                message = "Repository '{}' is archived. To extract data from archived repositories, " \
+                          "set 'extract_archived' to 'true' in the config.".format(repo)
+                raise ArchivedRepositoryError(message)
+            LOGGER.warning("Repository '%s' is archived. Proceeding with extraction as 'extract_archived' is enabled.", repo)
+
     def verify_access_for_repo(self):
         """
         For all the repositories mentioned in the config, check the access for each repos.
+        Also checks if repositories are archived and fails if extract_archived is not enabled.
         """
         repositories, org = self.extract_repos_from_config() # pylint: disable=unused-variable
 
@@ -296,6 +325,9 @@ def verify_access_for_repo(self):
             # Verifying for Repo access
             self.verify_repo_access(url_for_repo, repo)
 
+            # Check if repository is archived
+            self.check_repo_archived(repo)
+
     def extract_orgs_from_config(self):
         """
         Extracts all organizations from the config
@@ -383,6 +415,14 @@ def get_all_repos(self, organizations: list):
                             repo
                         )
 
+                        # Check if repository is archived (info already available in response)
+                        if repo.get('archived', False):
+                            if not self.extract_archived:
+                                message = "Repository '{}' is archived. To extract data from archived repositories, " \
+                                          "set 'extract_archived' to 'true' in the config.".format(repo_full_name)
+                                raise ArchivedRepositoryError(message)
+                            LOGGER.warning("Repository '%s' is archived. Proceeding with extraction as 'extract_archived' is enabled.", repo_full_name)
+
                         repos.append(repo_full_name)
             except NotFoundException:
                 # Throwing user-friendly error message as it checks token access