diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 1599ae8..76cde15 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -99,6 +99,16 @@ The following options are available (defaults are shown below):
   // searches, but simply does not display additional search results that have been found.
   maxSearchResults: 8,
 
+  // This option allows restricting search context to the current URL.
+  filterByPathName: false,
+
+  // This option only works if filterByPathName is set to true. It allows further filtering of the search context.
+  // Example: Suppose this is our endpoint: "/help/page1/subpage1/topic". If I set subPath: 2, then the search context
+  // will be limited to everything that can be found under	help/page1/*. Anything that's under /help/page3 or similar
+  // will be filtered out. subPath: 3 => then only help/page1/subpage1/* not help/page1/subpage2/*, etc.
+  // The default value is set to -1, which always allows searching the current page only as search context.
+  subPath: -1,
+
   // lunr.js-specific settings
   lunr: {
     // When indexing your documents, their content is split into "tokens".
diff --git a/packages/docusaurus-search-local/src/client/theme/SearchBar/index.tsx b/packages/docusaurus-search-local/src/client/theme/SearchBar/index.tsx
index 8683f67..707fd6e 100644
--- a/packages/docusaurus-search-local/src/client/theme/SearchBar/index.tsx
+++ b/packages/docusaurus-search-local/src/client/theme/SearchBar/index.tsx
@@ -114,6 +114,8 @@ const SearchBar = () => {
     parentCategoriesBoost,
     indexDocSidebarParentCategories,
     maxSearchResults,
+    filterByPathName,
+    subPath,
   } = usePluginData("@cmfcmf/docusaurus-search-local") as DSLAPluginData;
 
   const history = useHistory<DSLALocationState>();
@@ -310,8 +312,8 @@ const SearchBar = () => {
               const terms = tokenize(input);
 
               return indexes
-                .flatMap(({ index, documents }) =>
-                  index
+                .flatMap(({ index, documents }) => {
+                  const queriedIndex = index
                     .query((query) => {
                       query.term(terms, {
                         fields: ["title"],
@@ -360,8 +362,21 @@ const SearchBar = () => {
                       )!,
                       score: result.score,
                       terms,
-                    })),
-                )
+                    }));
+
+                  if (filterByPathName) {
+                    const pathNameArray = window.location.pathname.split("/");
+                    const pathNamePart =
+                      pathNameArray[
+                        subPath === -1 ? pathNameArray.length - 1 : subPath
+                      ];
+                    return queriedIndex.filter((item) =>
+                      item.document.sectionRoute.includes(pathNamePart),
+                    );
+                  }
+
+                  return queriedIndex;
+                })
                 .sort((a, b) => b.score - a.score)
                 .slice(0, maxSearchResults);
             },
diff --git a/packages/docusaurus-search-local/src/server/index.test.js b/packages/docusaurus-search-local/src/server/index.test.js
index 74e4117..075cbef 100644
--- a/packages/docusaurus-search-local/src/server/index.test.js
+++ b/packages/docusaurus-search-local/src/server/index.test.js
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ const DEFAULT_OPTIONS = {
   language: "en",
   style: undefined,
   maxSearchResults: 8,
+  filterByPathName: false,
+  subPath: -1,
   lunr: {
     tokenizerSeparator: undefined,
     b: 0.75,
@@ -64,6 +66,8 @@ it("validates options correctly", () => {
     language: "hi",
     style: "none",
     maxSearchResults: 123,
+    filterByPathName: false,
+    subPath: -1,
     lunr: {
       tokenizerSeparator: /-+/,
       b: 0.6,
diff --git a/packages/docusaurus-search-local/src/server/index.ts b/packages/docusaurus-search-local/src/server/index.ts
index d03c878..b502171 100644
--- a/packages/docusaurus-search-local/src/server/index.ts
+++ b/packages/docusaurus-search-local/src/server/index.ts
@@ -82,6 +82,8 @@ type MyOptions = {
   language: string | string[];
   style?: "none";
   maxSearchResults: number;
+  filterByPathName: boolean;
+  subPath: number;
   lunr: {
     tokenizerSeparator?: string;
     k1: number;
@@ -140,6 +142,10 @@ const optionsSchema = Joi.object({
 
   maxSearchResults: Joi.number().integer().min(1).default(8),
 
+  filterByPathName: Joi.boolean().default(false),
+
+  subPath: Joi.number().integer().min(-1).default(-1),
+
   lunr: Joi.object({
     tokenizerSeparator: Joi.object().regex(),
     b: Joi.number().min(0).max(1).default(0.75),
@@ -164,6 +170,8 @@ export default function cmfcmfDocusaurusSearchLocal(
     language,
     style,
     maxSearchResults,
+    filterByPathName,
+    subPath,
     lunr: {
       tokenizerSeparator: lunrTokenizerSeparator,
       k1,
@@ -300,6 +308,8 @@ export const tokenize = (input) => lunr.tokenizer(input)
         parentCategoriesBoost,
         indexDocSidebarParentCategories,
         maxSearchResults,
+        filterByPathName,
+        subPath,
       };
       setGlobalData(data);
     },
diff --git a/packages/docusaurus-search-local/src/types.ts b/packages/docusaurus-search-local/src/types.ts
index 0d6ea67..07871f3 100644
--- a/packages/docusaurus-search-local/src/types.ts
+++ b/packages/docusaurus-search-local/src/types.ts
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ export type DSLAPluginData = {
   tagsBoost: number;
   parentCategoriesBoost: number;
   maxSearchResults: number;
+  filterByPathName: boolean;
+  subPath: number;
 };
 
 export type MyDocument = {