diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8d8ed3f..454edad 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,2 +1,7 @@
 # CrawlerProtection
 Protect wikis against crawler bots
+
+# Configuration
+
+* `$wgCrawlerProtectedSpecialPages` - array of special pages to protect (default: `[ 'recentchangeslinked', 'whatlinkshere' ]`). Supported values are lowercase special page names, titled spacial page names and prefixed special page names.
+* `$wgCrawlerProtectionDenyFast` - drop denied requests in a quick way via `die();` with [418 I'm a teapot](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Status/418) code (default: `false`)
diff --git a/extension.json b/extension.json
index eff0a0c..43c6eb1 100644
--- a/extension.json
+++ b/extension.json
@@ -20,6 +20,17 @@
         "MediaWikiPerformAction": "main",
         "SpecialPageBeforeExecute": "main"
     },
+	"config": {
+		"CrawlerProtectedSpecialPages": {
+			"value": [
+				"recentchangeslinked",
+				"whatlinkshere"
+			]
+		},
+		"CrawlerProtectionDenyFast": {
+			"value": false
+		}
+	},
     "license-name": "MIT",
     "Tests": {
         "phpunit": "tests/phpunit"
diff --git a/includes/Hooks.php b/includes/Hooks.php
index 436d7e0..afb2066 100644
--- a/includes/Hooks.php
+++ b/includes/Hooks.php
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ class_alias( '\Article', '\MediaWiki\Page\Article' );
 
 use MediaWiki\Actions\ActionEntryPoint;
 use MediaWiki\Hook\MediaWikiPerformActionHook;
+use MediaWiki\MediaWikiServices;
 use MediaWiki\Output\OutputPage;
 use MediaWiki\Page\Article;
 use MediaWiki\Request\WebRequest;
@@ -96,9 +97,21 @@ public function onSpecialPageBeforeExecute( $special, $subPage ) {
 			return true;
 		}
 
+		$config = MediaWikiServices::getInstance()->getMainConfig();
+		$protectedSpecialPages = $config->get( 'CrawlerProtectedSpecialPages' );
+		$denyFast = $config->get( 'CrawlerProtectedSpecialPages' );
+
 		$name = strtolower( $special->getName() );
-		if ( in_array( $name, [ 'recentchangeslinked', 'whatlinkshere' ], true ) ) {
+		if (
+			// allow forgiving entries in the setting array for Special pages names
+			in_array( $special->getName(), $protectedSpecialPages, true )
+			|| in_array( $name, $protectedSpecialPages, true )
+			|| in_array( 'Special:' . $special->getName(), $protectedSpecialPages, true )
+		) {
 			$out = $special->getContext()->getOutput();
+			if ( $denyFast ) {
+				$this->denyAccessFast();
+			}
 			$this->denyAccess( $out );
 			return false;
 		}
@@ -106,6 +119,17 @@ public function onSpecialPageBeforeExecute( $special, $subPage ) {
 		return true;
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Helper: output 418 Teapot and halt the processing immediately
+	 *
+	 * @return void
+	 * @suppress PhanPluginNeverReturnMethod
+	 */
+	protected function denyAccessFast() {
+		header( 'HTTP/1.0 418 Forbidden' );
+		die( 'I am a teapot' );
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * Helper: output 403 Access Denied page using i18n messages.
 	 *