diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 0f3748da..f1abcaee 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ These settings can be overridden in `Packages/User/TypeScript.sublime-settings`,
 - `node_args`: array of command line arguments sent to the tsserver Node.js process before the tsserver script path (useful for e.g. changing max heap size or attaching debugger to the tsserver process)
 - `tsserver_args`: array of command line arguments sent to tsserver Node.js process after the tsserver script path (useful for e.g. overriding tsserver error message locale)
 - `tsserver_env`: environment variables to set for the tsserver Node.js process (useful for e.g. setting `TSS_LOG`). These variables are merged with the environment variables available to Sublime.
+- `auto_complete_api_completions_only`: boolean to make the autocompletion only provides typescript suggestions and hides the standard completions (aka, all the words of the page). (Default value: `false`). 
 
 Project System
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diff --git a/TypeScript.sublime-settings b/TypeScript.sublime-settings
index 2c113dc3..b1802a83 100644
--- a/TypeScript.sublime-settings
+++ b/TypeScript.sublime-settings
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 {
     "auto_complete_triggers" : [ {"selector": "source.ts", "characters": "."} ],
+    "auto_complete_api_completions_only": false,
     "use_tab_stops": false,
     "word_separators": "./\\()\"'-:,.;<>~!@#%^&*|+=[]{}`~?",
 
diff --git a/typescript/listeners/completion.py b/typescript/listeners/completion.py
index 6b4bd750..d02c4b92 100644
--- a/typescript/listeners/completion.py
+++ b/typescript/listeners/completion.py
@@ -142,9 +142,10 @@ def handle_completion_info(self, completions_resp):
                 self.run_auto_complete()
 
     def run_auto_complete(self):
+        settings = sublime.load_settings("TypeScript.sublime-settings")
         active_view().run_command("auto_complete", {
             'disable_auto_insert': True,
-            'api_completions_only': False,
+            'api_completions_only': settings.get('auto_complete_api_completions_only', False),
             'next_completion_if_showing': False,
             'auto_complete_commit_on_tab': True,
         })