diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d0811493..ccd8398c 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -119,3 +119,15 @@ Options:
                                 unavailable
                                          [default: "https://registry.npmjs.com"]
 ```
+
+## Configuration File
+
+We use [`rc`](https://github.com/dominictarr/rc) to parse configuration files. Please see the [`rc` repository](https://github.com/dominictarr/rc#standards) for the order of precedence used when searching for configuration files. Our app is `ipfs-npm`.
+
+For instance, if you want to always use a remote daemon, you could create a `~/.ipfs-npmrc` file like this:
+
+```json
+{
+  "ipfsNode": "/ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/5001"
+}
+```
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 3aeb2a3a..fd9ae6fe 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
     "ipfsd-ctl": "~0.40.1",
     "ipfs-registry-mirror-common": "^1.0.13",
     "once": "^1.4.0",
+    "rc": "^1.2.8",
     "request": "^2.88.0",
     "request-promise": "^4.2.2",
     "which-promise": "^1.0.0",
diff --git a/src/cli/bin.js b/src/cli/bin.js
index 112a437b..0f3348f2 100755
--- a/src/cli/bin.js
+++ b/src/cli/bin.js
@@ -7,10 +7,12 @@ require('dnscache')({ enable: true })
 const pkg = require('../../package')
 const path = require('path')
 const os = require('os')
+const rc = require('rc')
 
 process.title = pkg.name
 
 const yargs = require('yargs')
+  .config(rc(pkg.name, null, {}))
 
 yargs.command('$0', 'Installs your js dependencies using IPFS', (yargs) => { // eslint-disable-line no-unused-expressions
   yargs