diff --git a/docs/kittens/hyperlinked_grep.rst b/docs/kittens/hyperlinked_grep.rst
index eba86c143..8287de93d 100644
--- a/docs/kittens/hyperlinked_grep.rst
+++ b/docs/kittens/hyperlinked_grep.rst
@@ -74,6 +74,14 @@ to :program:`rg`. How to do that varies based on the shell:
 To learn more about kitty's powerful framework for customizing URL click
 actions, see :doc:`here </open_actions>`.
 
+By default, this adds hyperlinks for several parts of ripgrep output: the
+per-file header, match context lines, and match lines. You can control which
+items are linked with a :command:`--kitten hyperlink` flag. For example,
+:command:`--kitten hyperlink=matching_lines` will only add hyperlinks to the
+match lines. :command:`--kitten hyperlink=file_headers,context_lines` will
+link file headers and context lines but not match lines.
+:command:`--kitten hyperlink` may be specified multiple times.
+
 Hopefully, someday this functionality will make it into some `upstream grep
 <https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/665>`__ program directly removing
 the need for this kitten.
diff --git a/kittens/hyperlinked_grep/main.py b/kittens/hyperlinked_grep/main.py
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index 3c84998b4..dc787cae2
--- a/kittens/hyperlinked_grep/main.py
+++ b/kittens/hyperlinked_grep/main.py
@@ -20,6 +20,29 @@ def write_hyperlink(write: Callable[[bytes], None], url: bytes, line: bytes, fra
 
 
 def main() -> None:
+    i = 1
+    all_link_options = ['matching_lines', 'context_lines', 'file_headers']
+    link_options = set()
+    while i < len(sys.argv):
+        if sys.argv[i] == '--kitten':
+            if len(sys.argv) < i + 2 or not sys.argv[i + 1].startswith("hyperlink="):
+                raise SystemExit("--kitten argument must be followed by hyperlink=(all|matching_lines|context_lines|file_headers)")
+            for option in sys.argv[i + 1].split('=')[1].split(','):
+                if option == 'all':
+                    link_options.update(all_link_options)
+                elif option not in all_link_options:
+                    raise SystemExit(f"hyperlink option must be one of all, matching_lines, context_lines, or file_headers, not '{option}'")
+                else:
+                    link_options.add(option)
+            del sys.argv[i:i+2]
+        else:
+            i += 1
+    if len(link_options) == 0: # Default to linking everything if no options given
+        link_options.update(all_link_options)
+    link_file_headers = 'file_headers' in link_options
+    link_context_lines = 'context_lines' in link_options
+    link_matching_lines = 'matching_lines' in link_options
+
     if not sys.stdout.isatty() and '--pretty' not in sys.argv and '-p' not in sys.argv:
         os.execlp('rg', 'rg', *sys.argv[1:])
     cmdline = ['rg', '--pretty', '--with-filename'] + sys.argv[1:]
@@ -31,7 +54,7 @@ def main() -> None:
     write: Callable[[bytes], None] = cast(Callable[[bytes], None], sys.stdout.buffer.write)
     sgr_pat = re.compile(br'\x1b\[.*?m')
     osc_pat = re.compile(b'\x1b\\].*?\x1b\\\\')
-    num_pat = re.compile(br'^(\d+)[:-]')
+    num_pat = re.compile(br'^(\d+)([:-])')
 
     in_result: bytes = b''
     hostname = socket.gethostname().encode('utf-8')
@@ -43,20 +66,22 @@ def main() -> None:
             if not clean_line:
                 in_result = b''
                 write(b'\n')
-                continue
-            if in_result:
+            elif in_result:
                 m = num_pat.match(clean_line)
                 if m is not None:
-                    write_hyperlink(write, in_result, line, frag=m.group(1))
-                else:
-                    write(line)
+                    is_match_line = m.group(2) == b':'
+                    if (is_match_line and link_matching_lines) or (not is_match_line and link_context_lines):
+                        write_hyperlink(write, in_result, line, frag=m.group(1))
+                        continue
+                write(line)
             else:
                 if line.strip():
                     path = quote_from_bytes(os.path.abspath(clean_line)).encode('utf-8')
                     in_result = b'file://' + hostname + path
-                    write_hyperlink(write, in_result, line)
-                else:
-                    write(line)
+                    if link_file_headers:
+                        write_hyperlink(write, in_result, line)
+                        continue
+                write(line)
     except KeyboardInterrupt:
         p.send_signal(signal.SIGINT)
     except (EOFError, BrokenPipeError):