diff --git a/src/Command/CrawlCommand.php b/src/Command/CrawlCommand.php
index e034a8f1..11ffc899 100644
--- a/src/Command/CrawlCommand.php
+++ b/src/Command/CrawlCommand.php
@@ -145,6 +145,10 @@ protected function execute(InputInterface $input, OutputInterface $output)
       $crawler->setDelayBetweenRequests($delay);
     }
 
+    if (!empty($this->config['options']['ignore_robotstxt'])) {
+      $crawler->ignoreRobots();
+    }
+
     $io->success('Starting crawl!');
 
     $crawler->startCrawling($baseUrl);
diff --git a/src/Crawler/Group/ElementFilter.php b/src/Crawler/Group/ElementFilter.php
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0317d21a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Crawler/Group/ElementFilter.php
@@ -0,0 +1,102 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace Merlin\Crawler\Group;
+
+use Psr\Http\Message\ResponseInterface;
+use Symfony\Component\DomCrawler\Crawler;
+
+/**
+ * Allows regex element filters to extract to separate files.
+ *
+ * @example
+ *   id: group-by-node-type
+ *   type: element_filter
+ *   options:
+ *      selector: .node # DOM or Xpath
+ *      pattern: /node-\w+/
+ *      filter_attr: class
+ */
+class ElementFilter extends GroupBase
+{
+
+  /**
+   * The filtered type - used to separate output by id.
+   *
+   * @var string
+   */
+  protected $filter_type;
+
+
+  /**
+   * {@inheritdoc}
+   */
+  public function __construct(array $config=[])
+  {
+    parent::__construct($config);
+    $this->filter_type = NULL;
+
+  }//end __construct()
+
+
+  /**
+   * {@inheritdoc}
+   */
+  public function getId() : string
+  {
+    $id = parent::getId();
+
+    if ($this->filter_type) {
+      $id .= "-{$this->filter_type}";
+    }
+
+    return $id;
+
+  }//end getId()
+
+
+  /**
+   * {@inheritdoc}
+   */
+  public function match($url, ResponseInterface $response) : bool
+  {
+    $dom = new Crawler($response->getBody()->__toString(), $url);
+    $filter_attr = $this->getOption('filter_attr') ?: 'class';
+    $pattern = $this->getOption('pattern');
+
+    if (empty($this->getOption('selector')) || empty($pattern)) {
+      return FALSE;
+    }
+
+    try {
+      $element = $dom->evaluate($this->getOption('selector'));
+    } catch (\Exception $error) {
+      $element = [];
+    }
+
+    if (!is_callable([$element, 'count']) || $element->count() === 0) {
+      try {
+        $element = $dom->filter($this->getOption('selector'));
+      } catch (\Exception $error) {
+        return FALSE;
+      }
+    }
+
+    if ($element->count() === 0) {
+      return FALSE;
+    }
+
+    $types = $element->each(
+        function(Crawler $node) use ($filter_attr, $pattern) {
+        preg_match($pattern, $node->attr($filter_attr), $matches);
+        return reset($matches);
+        }
+    );
+
+    $this->filter_type = reset($types);
+
+    return TRUE;
+
+  }//end match()
+
+
+}//end class