diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index a3c2562..a18ed80 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -10,3 +10,5 @@ package-lock.json
 main.js
 *.js.map
 .DS_Store
+
+data.json
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diff --git a/main.ts b/main.ts
index 94b89b9..711764c 100644
--- a/main.ts
+++ b/main.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { EditorExtensions } from "editor-enhancements";
-import { Plugin, MarkdownView, Editor } from "obsidian";
+import { Plugin, MarkdownView, Editor, PluginSettingTab, App, Setting } from "obsidian";
 import { AutoLinkTitleSettings, DEFAULT_SETTINGS } from './settings'
 import { CheckIf } from "checkif";
 import getPageTitle from "scraper";
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ export default class AutoLinkTitle extends Plugin {
         },
       ],
     });
+
+    this.addSettingTab(new AutoLinkTitleSettingTab(this.app, this));
   }
 
   addTitleToLink(): void {
@@ -72,6 +74,12 @@ export default class AutoLinkTitle extends Plugin {
       return;
     }
 
+    let selectedText = (EditorExtensions.getSelectedText(editor) || "").trim();
+    if (selectedText && !this.settings.shouldReplaceSelection) {
+      // If there is selected text and shouldReplaceSelection is false, do not fetch title
+      return
+    }
+
     // We've decided to handle the paste, stop propagation to the default handler.
     clipboard.stopPropagation();
     clipboard.preventDefault();
@@ -159,4 +167,30 @@ export default class AutoLinkTitle extends Plugin {
   async saveSettings() {
     await this.saveData(this.settings);
   }
+}
+
+class AutoLinkTitleSettingTab extends PluginSettingTab {
+	plugin: AutoLinkTitle;
+
+	constructor(app: App, plugin: AutoLinkTitle) {
+		super(app, plugin);
+		this.plugin = plugin;
+	}
+
+	display(): void {
+		let {containerEl} = this;
+
+		containerEl.empty();
+
+		new Setting(containerEl)
+			.setName('Replace Selection')
+			.setDesc('Whether to replace a text selection with link and fetched title')
+			.addToggle(val => val
+				.setValue(this.plugin.settings.shouldReplaceSelection)
+				.onChange(async (value) => {
+					console.log(value);
+					this.plugin.settings.shouldReplaceSelection = value;
+					await this.plugin.saveSettings();
+				}));
+	}
 }
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diff --git a/settings.ts b/settings.ts
index f0b9e65..4fc2b64 100644
--- a/settings.ts
+++ b/settings.ts
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ export interface AutoLinkTitleSettings {
   linkRegex: RegExp;
   linkLineRegex: RegExp;
   imageRegex: RegExp;
+  shouldReplaceSelection: boolean;
 }
 
 export const DEFAULT_SETTINGS: AutoLinkTitleSettings = {
@@ -11,5 +12,6 @@ export const DEFAULT_SETTINGS: AutoLinkTitleSettings = {
   lineRegex: /(https?:\/\/(?:www\.|(?!www))[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9-]+[a-zA-Z0-9]\.[^\s]{2,}|www\.[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9-]+[a-zA-Z0-9]\.[^\s]{2,}|https?:\/\/(?:www\.|(?!www))[a-zA-Z0-9]+\.[^\s]{2,}|www\.[a-zA-Z0-9]+\.[^\s]{2,})/ig,
   linkRegex: /^\[([^\[\]]*)\]\((https?:\/\/(?:www\.|(?!www))[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9-]+[a-zA-Z0-9]\.[^\s]{2,}|www\.[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9-]+[a-zA-Z0-9]\.[^\s]{2,}|https?:\/\/(?:www\.|(?!www))[a-zA-Z0-9]+\.[^\s]{2,}|www\.[a-zA-Z0-9]+\.[^\s]{2,})\)$/i,
   linkLineRegex: /\[([^\[\]]*)\]\((https?:\/\/(?:www\.|(?!www))[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9-]+[a-zA-Z0-9]\.[^\s]{2,}|www\.[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9-]+[a-zA-Z0-9]\.[^\s]{2,}|https?:\/\/(?:www\.|(?!www))[a-zA-Z0-9]+\.[^\s]{2,}|www\.[a-zA-Z0-9]+\.[^\s]{2,})\)/ig,
-  imageRegex: /\.(gif|jpe?g|tiff?|png|webp|bmp|tga|psd|ai)/i
+  imageRegex: /\.(gif|jpe?g|tiff?|png|webp|bmp|tga|psd|ai)/i,
+  shouldReplaceSelection: true
 }
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