diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 5cc21337..aecf0617 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -6,6 +6,21 @@ For an overview of the community storage providers, see [Community Storage Provi
 
 This package comes with a couple of goodies that should be mentioned, first is the `ThrottlerModule`.
 
+# Table of Contents
+
+- [NestJS Throttler Package](#nestjs-throttler-package)
+- [Table of Contents](#table-of-contents)
+- [Usage](#usage)
+  - [ThrottlerModule](#throttlermodule)
+  - [Decorators](#decorators)
+    - [@Throttle()](#throttle)
+    - [@SkipThrottle()](#skipthrottle)
+  - [Ignoring specific user agents](#ignoring-specific-user-agents)
+  - [ThrottlerStorage](#throttlerstorage)
+- [Community Storage Providers](#community-storage-providers)
+
+# Usage
+
 ## ThrottlerModule
 
 The `ThrottleModule` is the main entry point for this package, and can be used
@@ -88,8 +103,6 @@ export class AppController {
 }
 ```
 
-
-
 ## Decorators
 
 ### @Throttle()
@@ -108,7 +121,8 @@ and routes.
 @SkipThrottle(skip = true)
 ```
 
-This decorator can be used to skip a route or a class **or** to negate the skipping of a route in a class that is skipped.
+This decorator can be used to skip a route or a class **or** to negate the
+skipping of a route in a class that is skipped.
 
 ```ts
 @SkipThrottle()
@@ -121,13 +135,42 @@ export class AppController {
 }
 ```
 
-In the above controller, `dontSkip` would be counted against and rate-limited while `doSkip` would not be limited in any way.
+In the above controller, `dontSkip` would be counted against and rate-limited
+while `doSkip` would not be limited in any way.
+
+## Ignoring specific user agents
+
+You can use the `ignoreUserAgents` key to ignore specific user agents.
+
+```ts
+@Module({
+  imports: [
+    ThrottlerModule.forRoot({
+      ttl: 60,
+      limit: 10,
+      ignoreUserAgents: [
+        // Don't throttle request that have 'googlebot' defined in them.
+        // Example user agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
+        /googlebot/gi,
+
+        // Don't throttle request that have 'bingbot' defined in them.
+        // Example user agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)
+        new RegExp('Bingbot', 'gi'),
+      ],
+    }),
+  ],
+})
+export class AppModule {}
+```
 
 ## ThrottlerStorage
 
 Interface to define the methods to handle the details when it comes to keeping track of the requests.
 
-Currently the key is seen as an `MD5` hash of the `IP` the `ClassName` and the `MethodName`, to ensure that no unsafe characters are used and to ensure that the package works for contexts that don't have explicit routes (like Websockets and GraphQL).
+Currently the key is seen as an `MD5` hash of the `IP` the `ClassName` and the
+`MethodName`, to ensure that no unsafe characters are used and to ensure that
+the package works for contexts that don't have explicit routes (like Websockets
+and GraphQL).
 
 The interface looks like this:
 
diff --git a/src/throttler.guard.ts b/src/throttler.guard.ts
index b2fe922e..9fb3566a 100644
--- a/src/throttler.guard.ts
+++ b/src/throttler.guard.ts
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ export class ThrottlerGuard implements CanActivate {
   ) {}
 
   async canActivate(context: ExecutionContext): Promise<boolean> {
+    const req = context.switchToHttp().getRequest();
     const handler = context.getHandler();
     const classRef = context.getClass();
     const headerPrefix = 'X-RateLimit';
@@ -29,6 +30,15 @@ export class ThrottlerGuard implements CanActivate {
       return true;
     }
 
+    // Return early if the current route should be ignored.
+    if (Array.isArray(this.options.ignoreUserAgents)) {
+      for (const pattern of this.options.ignoreUserAgents) {
+        if (pattern.test(req.headers['user-agent'])) {
+          return true;
+        }
+      }
+    }
+
     // Return early when we have no limit or ttl data.
     const routeOrClassLimit = this.reflector.getAllAndOverride<number>(THROTTLER_LIMIT, [
       handler,
@@ -44,7 +54,6 @@ export class ThrottlerGuard implements CanActivate {
     const ttl = routeOrClassTtl || this.options.ttl;
 
     // Here we start to check the amount of requests being done against the ttl.
-    const req = context.switchToHttp().getRequest();
     const res = context.switchToHttp().getResponse();
     const key = md5(`${req.ip}-${classRef.name}-${handler.name}`);
     const ttls = await this.storageService.getRecord(key);
diff --git a/src/throttler.interface.ts b/src/throttler.interface.ts
index 38f85094..2c0f2a2f 100644
--- a/src/throttler.interface.ts
+++ b/src/throttler.interface.ts
@@ -3,5 +3,6 @@ import { ThrottlerStorage } from './throttler-storage.interface';
 export interface ThrottlerOptions {
   limit: number;
   ttl: number;
+  ignoreUserAgents?: RegExp[];
   storage?: ThrottlerStorage;
 }
diff --git a/test/app/app.module.ts b/test/app/app.module.ts
index 4c63f83b..fe3e9bfd 100644
--- a/test/app/app.module.ts
+++ b/test/app/app.module.ts
@@ -2,11 +2,11 @@ import { Module } from '@nestjs/common';
 import { APP_GUARD } from '@nestjs/core';
 import { ThrottlerGuard } from '../../src';
 import { ControllerModule } from './controllers/controller.module';
-import { GatewayModule } from './gateways/gateway.module';
-import { ResolverModule } from './resolvers/resolver.module';
+// import { GatewayModule } from './gateways/gateway.module';
+// import { ResolverModule } from './resolvers/resolver.module';
 
 @Module({
-  imports: [ControllerModule, GatewayModule, ResolverModule],
+  imports: [ControllerModule /* , GatewayModule, ResolverModule */],
   providers: [
     {
       provide: APP_GUARD,
diff --git a/test/app/controllers/app.controller.ts b/test/app/controllers/app.controller.ts
index e1722bbf..4a322c5c 100644
--- a/test/app/controllers/app.controller.ts
+++ b/test/app/controllers/app.controller.ts
@@ -17,4 +17,9 @@ export class AppController {
   async ignored() {
     return this.appService.ignored();
   }
+
+  @Get('ignore-user-agents')
+  async ignoreUserAgents() {
+    return this.appService.ignored();
+  }
 }
diff --git a/test/app/controllers/controller.module.ts b/test/app/controllers/controller.module.ts
index d2a1ded8..36cc4bab 100644
--- a/test/app/controllers/controller.module.ts
+++ b/test/app/controllers/controller.module.ts
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import { LimitController } from './limit.controller';
     ThrottlerModule.forRoot({
       limit: 5,
       ttl: 60,
+      ignoreUserAgents: [/throttler-test/g],
     }),
   ],
   controllers: [AppController, DefaultController, LimitController],
diff --git a/test/app/main.ts b/test/app/main.ts
index 2c8d880e..2633cac9 100644
--- a/test/app/main.ts
+++ b/test/app/main.ts
@@ -1,13 +1,16 @@
 import { NestFactory } from '@nestjs/core';
-import { FastifyAdapter } from '@nestjs/platform-fastify';
+// import { FastifyAdapter } from '@nestjs/platform-fastify';
+import { ExpressAdapter } from '@nestjs/platform-express';
+// import { WsAdapter } from '@nestjs/platform-ws';
 import { AppModule } from './app.module';
 
 async function bootstrap() {
   const app = await NestFactory.create(
     AppModule,
-    // new ExpressAdapter(),
-    new FastifyAdapter(),
+    new ExpressAdapter(),
+    // new FastifyAdapter(),
   );
+  // app.useWebSocketAdapter(new WsAdapter(app))
   await app.listen(3000);
 }
 bootstrap();
diff --git a/test/controller.e2e-spec.ts b/test/controller.e2e-spec.ts
index 79038d34..2de4e41e 100644
--- a/test/controller.e2e-spec.ts
+++ b/test/controller.e2e-spec.ts
@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@ import { AbstractHttpAdapter, APP_GUARD } from '@nestjs/core';
 import { ExpressAdapter } from '@nestjs/platform-express';
 import { FastifyAdapter } from '@nestjs/platform-fastify';
 import { Test, TestingModule } from '@nestjs/testing';
+import { ThrottlerGuard } from '../src';
 import { ControllerModule } from './app/controllers/controller.module';
 import { httPromise } from './utility/httpromise';
-import { ThrottlerGuard } from '../src';
 
 describe.each`
   adapter                 | adapterName
@@ -52,6 +52,17 @@ describe.each`
           'x-ratelimit-reset': /\d+/,
         });
       });
+      it('GET /ignore-user-agents', async () => {
+        const response = await httPromise(appUrl + '/ignore-user-agents', 'GET', {
+          'user-agent': 'throttler-test/0.0.0',
+        });
+        expect(response.data).toEqual({ ignored: true });
+        expect(response.headers).not.toMatchObject({
+          'x-ratelimit-limit': '2',
+          'x-ratelimit-remaining': '1',
+          'x-ratelimit-reset': /\d+/,
+        });
+      });
       it('GET /', async () => {
         const response = await httPromise(appUrl + '/');
         expect(response.data).toEqual({ success: true });
diff --git a/test/utility/httpromise.ts b/test/utility/httpromise.ts
index 5ec83ad0..87a714cd 100644
--- a/test/utility/httpromise.ts
+++ b/test/utility/httpromise.ts
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ type HttpMethods = 'GET' | 'POST' | 'PATCH' | 'DELETE' | 'PUT';
 export function httPromise(
   url: string,
   method: HttpMethods = 'GET',
+  headers: Record<string, any> = {},
   body?: Record<string, any>,
 ): Promise<{ data: any; headers: Record<string, any>; status: number }> {
   return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
@@ -30,6 +31,11 @@ export function httPromise(
       });
     });
     req.method = method;
+
+    Object.keys(headers).forEach((key) => {
+      req.setHeader(key, headers[key]);
+    });
+
     switch (method) {
       case 'GET':
         break;