diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 5e04698fae7..5c0e943e8b2 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -13,5 +13,5 @@ require (
 	golang.org/x/xerrors v0.0.0-20200804184101-5ec99f83aff1 // indirect
 	google.golang.org/genproto v0.0.0-20200513103714-09dca8ec2884
 	google.golang.org/grpc v1.33.1
-	gopkg.in/yaml.v2 v2.2.3 // indirect
+	gopkg.in/yaml.v2 v2.2.3
 )
diff --git a/protoc-gen-grpc-gateway/descriptor/registry.go b/protoc-gen-grpc-gateway/descriptor/registry.go
index 28637a4dab8..bbf93395988 100644
--- a/protoc-gen-grpc-gateway/descriptor/registry.go
+++ b/protoc-gen-grpc-gateway/descriptor/registry.go
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package descriptor
 
 import (
 	"fmt"
+	"io/ioutil"
 	"path"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"strings"
@@ -10,6 +11,7 @@ import (
 	descriptor "github.com/golang/protobuf/protoc-gen-go/descriptor"
 	plugin "github.com/golang/protobuf/protoc-gen-go/plugin"
 	"google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/api/annotations"
+	"gopkg.in/yaml.v2"
 )
 
 // Registry is a registry of information extracted from plugin.CodeGeneratorRequest.
@@ -97,6 +99,9 @@ type Registry struct {
 
 	// omitPackageDoc, if false, causes a package comment to be included in the generated code.
 	omitPackageDoc bool
+
+	// Custom configuration
+	config Config
 }
 
 type repeatedFieldSeparator struct {
@@ -104,6 +109,11 @@ type repeatedFieldSeparator struct {
 	sep  rune
 }
 
+type Config struct {
+	SkipMethods map[string]string
+	SkipFields  map[string]map[string]string
+}
+
 // NewRegistry returns a new Registry.
 func NewRegistry() *Registry {
 	return &Registry{
@@ -605,3 +615,18 @@ func (r *Registry) packageIdentityName(f *descriptor.FileDescriptorProto) string
 	}
 	return f.GetPackage()
 }
+
+func (r *Registry) ParseConfigFile(filename string) error {
+	if filename == "" {
+		return nil
+	}
+	dat, err := ioutil.ReadFile(filename)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	return yaml.Unmarshal(dat, &r.config)
+}
+
+func (r *Registry) GetConfig() *Config {
+	return &r.config
+}
diff --git a/protoc-gen-swagger/main.go b/protoc-gen-swagger/main.go
index ffdfcd853af..bfb27e36995 100644
--- a/protoc-gen-swagger/main.go
+++ b/protoc-gen-swagger/main.go
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ var (
 	enumsAsInts                = flag.Bool("enums_as_ints", false, "whether to render enum values as integers, as opposed to string values")
 	simpleOperationIDs         = flag.Bool("simple_operation_ids", false, "whether to remove the service prefix in the operationID generation. Can introduce duplicate operationIDs, use with caution.")
 	generateUnboundMethods     = flag.Bool("generate_unbound_methods", false, "generate swagger metadata even for RPC methods that have no HttpRule annotation")
+	configFile                 = flag.String("config_file", "", "configuration file")
 )
 
 // Variables set by goreleaser at build time
@@ -88,6 +89,10 @@ func main() {
 	reg.SetDisableDefaultErrors(*disableDefaultErrors)
 	reg.SetSimpleOperationIDs(*simpleOperationIDs)
 	reg.SetGenerateUnboundMethods(*generateUnboundMethods)
+	if err := reg.ParseConfigFile(*configFile); err != nil {
+		emitError(err)
+		return
+	}
 	if err := reg.SetRepeatedPathParamSeparator(*repeatedPathParamSeparator); err != nil {
 		emitError(err)
 		return