diff --git a/commands.go b/commands.go
index 06d8b7ee..4d9c92c2 100644
--- a/commands.go
+++ b/commands.go
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package main
 import (
 	"bufio"
 	"fmt"
+	"io"
 	"os"
 	"os/exec"
 	"runtime"
@@ -322,7 +323,45 @@ func doImport(c *cli.Context) {
 		isShallow = c.Bool("shallow")
 	)
 
-	scanner := bufio.NewScanner(os.Stdin)
+	var (
+		in       io.Reader
+		finalize func() error
+	)
+
+	if len(c.Args()) == 0 {
+		// `ghq import` reads URLs from stdin
+		in = os.Stdin
+		finalize = func() error { return nil }
+	} else {
+		// Handle `ghq import starred motemen` case
+		// with `git config --global ghq.import.starred "!github-list-starred"`
+		subCommand := c.Args().First()
+		command, err := GitConfigSingle("ghq.import." + subCommand)
+		if err == nil && command == "" {
+			err = fmt.Errorf("ghq.import.%s configuration not found", subCommand)
+		}
+		utils.DieIf(err)
+
+		// execute `sh -c 'COMMAND "$@"' -- ARG...`
+		// TODO: Windows
+		command = strings.TrimLeft(command, "!")
+		shellCommand := append([]string{"sh", "-c", command + ` "$@"`, "--"}, c.Args().Tail()...)
+
+		utils.Log("run", strings.Join(append([]string{command}, c.Args().Tail()...), " "))
+
+		cmd := exec.Command(shellCommand[0], shellCommand[1:]...)
+		cmd.Stderr = os.Stderr
+
+		in, err = cmd.StdoutPipe()
+		utils.DieIf(err)
+
+		err = cmd.Start()
+		utils.DieIf(err)
+
+		finalize = cmd.Wait
+	}
+
+	scanner := bufio.NewScanner(in)
 	for scanner.Scan() {
 		line := scanner.Text()
 		url, err := NewURL(line)
@@ -353,6 +392,8 @@ func doImport(c *cli.Context) {
 		utils.Log("error", fmt.Sprintf("While reading input: %s", err))
 		os.Exit(1)
 	}
+
+	utils.DieIf(finalize())
 }
 
 func doRoot(c *cli.Context) {
diff --git a/ghq.txt b/ghq.txt
index 33d09463..55f00cba 100644
--- a/ghq.txt
+++ b/ghq.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ ghq - Manage remote repository clones
     $ ghq get https://github.com/motemen/ghq
     # Runs `git clone https://github.com/motemen/ghq ~/.ghq/github.com/motemen/ghq`
 
-You can also list local repositories (+ghq list+), jump into local repositories (+ghq look+), and bulk cloning repositories from several web services (+ghq import+).
+You can also list local repositories (+ghq list+), jump into local repositories (+ghq look+), and bulk get repositories by list of URLs (+ghq import+).
 
 == SYNOPSIS
 
@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@ You can also list local repositories (+ghq list+), jump into local repositories
 'ghq' get [-u] [-p] (<repository URL> | <user>/<project> | <project>)
 'ghq' list [-p] [-e] [<query>]
 'ghq' look (<project> | <path/to/project>)
-'ghq' import < FILE
+'ghq' import [-u] [-p] < FILE
+'ghq' import <subcommand> [<args>...]
 
 == COMMANDS
 
@@ -48,7 +49,12 @@ look::
     Look into a locally cloned repository with the shell.
 
 import::
-    Reads repository URLs from stdin and performs 'get' for each of them.
+    If no extra arguments given, reads repository URLs from stdin line by line
+    and performs 'get' for each of them. +
+    If given a subcommand name e.g. 'ghq import <subcommand> [<args>...]',
+    ghq looks up a configuration 'ghq.import.<subcommand>' for a command, invokes
+    it, and uses its output as URLs list. See below for 'ghq.import.<subcommand>'
+    in CONFIGURATION section.
 
 == CONFIGURATION
 
@@ -69,7 +75,7 @@ ghq.<url>.vcs::
     Accepted values are "git", "github" (an alias for "git"), "mercurial", "hg"
     (an alias for "mercurial"). +
     To get this configuration variable effective, you will need Git 1.8.5 or higher. +
-    For example in .gitconfig: +
+    For example in .gitconfig:
 
 ....
 [ghq "https://git.example.com/repos/"]
@@ -77,6 +83,20 @@ vcs = git
 ....
 
 
+ghq.import.<subcommand>::
+    When 'import' is called with extra arguments e.g. 'ghq import <subcommand> [<args>...]',
+    first of them is treated as a subcommand name and this configuration value
+    will be used for a command. The command is invoked with rest arguments
+    and expected to print remote repository URLs line by line. +
+    For example with https://github.com/motemen/github-list-starred[github-list-starred]:
+
+....
+# Invoke as `ghq import starred motemen`
+[ghq "import"]
+starred = github-list-starred
+....
+
+
 ghq.ghe.host::
     The hostname of your GitHub Enterprise installation. A repository that has a
     hostname set with this key will be regarded as same one as one on GitHub.