diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index 0ee4e02..2567541 100755
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -11,7 +11,10 @@ program
     .description('Converts Medium exported html files to markdown from a local directory.')
     .option('-d, --drafts', 'Convert drafts too.')
     .option('-f, --frontMatter', 'Add front-matter.')
+    .option('-h, --headers [headers...]', 'Specify additional Front Matter headers, for example "header: value"')
     .option('-i, --images', 'Download images in local directory.')
+    .option('-p, --prefixSlug <prefix>', 'Use a different prefix for the slug path, replaces /@username/')
+    .option('-s, --slugField <name>', 'Specfiy the name of the slug field.', 'slug')
     .action(workflow.processAll);
 
 // Convert from url has been removed.
diff --git a/lib/reader.js b/lib/reader.js
index c5d01ce..c31de2d 100644
--- a/lib/reader.js
+++ b/lib/reader.js
@@ -10,10 +10,9 @@ const frontMatterTemplate = {
     date: "",
     categories: [],
     keywords: [],
-    slug: ""
 };
 
-var readAll = function (filePath, frontMatterConfig) {
+var readAll = function (filePath, frontMatterConfig, slugField, prefixSlug, headers) {
     const contents = fs.readFileSync(filePath);
 
     let $ = cheerio.load(contents);
@@ -30,11 +29,12 @@ var readAll = function (filePath, frontMatterConfig) {
     const title = $('.p-name').text();
     const subtitle = $('.p-summary[data-field="subtitle"]').text();
     const date = $('.dt-published').attr('datetime');
-    const slug = canonical ? url.parse(canonical).path : '';
+    const path = canonical ? url.parse(canonical).path : '';
+    const slug = !prefixSlug ? path : path.replace(/^\/[^\/]*/, prefixSlug).replace(/\/\//, '/'); 
 
     // no tags available in the exported HTML files
 
-    const frontMatter = generateFrontMatter(title, subtitle, date, slug);
+    const frontMatter = generateFrontMatter(title, subtitle, date, slug, slugField, headers);
 
     return { html, frontMatter };
 }
@@ -70,12 +70,12 @@ var readAll = function (filePath, frontMatterConfig) {
 //     };
 // }
 
-var generateFrontMatter = function (title, subtitle, date, slug, tags) {
-    const frontMatter = Object.assign({}, frontMatterTemplate);
+var generateFrontMatter = function (title, subtitle, date, slug, slugField, headers, tags) {
+    const frontMatter = Object.assign({}, Object.assign(frontMatterTemplate, headers));
     frontMatter.title = title.toString().replace(/\n/g, '');
     frontMatter.description = subtitle ? subtitle.toString().replace(/\n/g, '') : '';
     frontMatter.date = date ? date.toString() : '';
-    frontMatter.slug = slug ? slug.toString() : '';
+    frontMatter[slugField] = slug ? slug.toString() : '';
     frontMatter.keywords = tags ? tags : [];
     const yml = yaml.safeDump(frontMatter);
     return yml;
diff --git a/lib/workflow.js b/lib/workflow.js
index 7b761f0..15a9cb3 100644
--- a/lib/workflow.js
+++ b/lib/workflow.js
@@ -22,12 +22,30 @@ var processAll = function (inputDir, options) {
             }
         }
 
+        let headers = {}; 
+        if (options.headers) {
+            for(const header of options.headers) {
+               const [key, value] = header.split(':');
+               if (!key || !value) {
+                   console.log(`Error parsing value for header due to invalid format: "${header}"`);
+                   return;
+               }
+               headers[key] = value;
+            }
+        }
+
         if (fs.existsSync(inputPath)) {
             fs.readdirSync(inputPath).forEach(async file => {
                 try {
                     if (path.parse(file).ext === '.html') {
                         if (checkDraft(file, options.drafts)) {
-                            const readOutput = read.readAll(path.join(inputDir, file), options.frontMatter);
+                            const readOutput = read.readAll(
+                                path.join(inputDir, file), 
+                                options.frontMatter, 
+                                options.slugField, 
+                                options.prefixSlug,
+                                headers
+                            );
                             const converterResult = convert(readOutput.html, options.images);
                             if (options.images === true) {
                                 for(const v of converterResult.images) {