diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ad3c156..c182737 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ This is an npm module for using [ripgrep](https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep)
 - Ripgrep is built in [microsoft/ripgrep-prebuilt](https://github.com/microsoft/ripgrep-prebuilt) and published to releases for each tag in that repo.
 - In this module's postinstall task, it determines which platform it is being installed on and downloads the correct binary from ripgrep-prebuilt for the platform.
 - The path to the ripgrep binary is exported as `rgPath`.
+- Download Mirror url from environment variable RIPGREP_MIRROR_URL or npm config ripgrep_mirror_url
 
 ### Usage example
 
diff --git a/lib/download.js b/lib/download.js
index 9036134..ffaa5da 100644
--- a/lib/download.js
+++ b/lib/download.js
@@ -134,25 +134,31 @@ function getApiUrl(repo, tag) {
 }
 
 /**
- * @param {{ force: boolean; token: string; version: string; }} opts
- * @param {string} assetName
- * @param {string} downloadFolder
+ * @returns {string | null}
  */
-async function getAssetFromGithubApi(opts, assetName, downloadFolder) {
-    const assetDownloadPath = path.join(downloadFolder, assetName);
+function getMirrorUrl() {
+    const mirrorUrlFromEnv = process.env.RIPGREP_MIRROR_URL;
+    if (mirrorUrlFromEnv) {
+        console.log('Using ripgrep mirror URL from environment variable RIPGREP_MIRROR_URL: ' + mirrorUrlFromEnv);
+        return mirrorUrlFromEnv;
+    }
 
-    // We can just use the cached binary
-    if (!opts.force && await fsExists(assetDownloadPath)) {
-        console.log('Using cached download: ' + assetDownloadPath);
-        return assetDownloadPath;
+    const mirrorUrlFromNpmConfig = process.env.npm_config_ripgrep_mirror_url;
+    if (mirrorUrlFromNpmConfig) {
+        console.log('Using ripgrep mirror URL from npm config: ' + mirrorUrlFromNpmConfig);
+        return mirrorUrlFromNpmConfig;
     }
 
-    const downloadOpts = {
-        headers: {
-            'user-agent': 'vscode-ripgrep'
-        }
-    };
+    return null;
+}
 
+/**
+ * @param {{ force: boolean; token: string; version: string; }} opts
+ * @param {string} assetName
+ * @param {string} assetDownloadPath
+ * @param {object} downloadOpts
+ */
+async function downloadFromGithub(opts, assetName, assetDownloadPath, downloadOpts) {
     if (opts.token) {
         downloadOpts.headers.authorization = `token ${opts.token}`;
     }
@@ -182,6 +188,41 @@ async function getAssetFromGithubApi(opts, assetName, downloadFolder) {
     await download(asset.url, assetDownloadPath, downloadOpts);
 }
 
+/**
+ * Downloads the ripgrep asset from a mirror or from the GitHub API.
+ * @param {{ force: boolean; token: string; version: string; }} opts
+ * @param {string} assetName
+ * @param {string} downloadFolder
+ * @param {string | null} mirrorUrl
+ */
+async function downloadAsset(opts, assetName, downloadFolder, mirrorUrl) {
+    const assetDownloadPath = path.join(downloadFolder, assetName);
+
+    // We can just use the cached binary
+    if (!opts.force && await fsExists(assetDownloadPath)) {
+        console.log('Using cached download: ' + assetDownloadPath);
+        return;
+    }
+
+    const downloadOpts = {
+        headers: {
+            'user-agent': 'vscode-ripgrep'
+        }
+    };
+
+    if (mirrorUrl) {
+        const baseUrl = mirrorUrl.endsWith('/') ? mirrorUrl : `${mirrorUrl}/`;
+        const downloadUrl = baseUrl + assetName;
+
+        console.log(`Downloading from mirror: ${downloadUrl}`);
+        console.log(`Downloading to: ${assetDownloadPath}`);
+        await download(downloadUrl, assetDownloadPath, downloadOpts);
+        return;
+    }
+
+    await downloadFromGithub(opts, assetName, assetDownloadPath, downloadOpts);
+}
+
 /**
  * @param {string} zipPath
  * @param {string} destinationDir
@@ -261,15 +302,6 @@ function unzipWindows(zipPath, destinationDir) {
     });
 }
 
-/**
- * Handle whitespace in filepath as powershell splits path with whitespaces
- * @param {string} path
- */
-function sanitizePathForPowershell(path) {
-    path = path.replace(/ /g, '` '); // replace whitespace with "` " as solution provided here https://stackoverflow.com/a/18537344/7374562
-    return path;
-}
-
 function untar(zipPath, destinationDir) {
     return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
         const unzipProc = child_process.spawn('tar', ['xvf', zipPath, '-C', destinationDir], { stdio: 'inherit' });
@@ -328,8 +360,10 @@ module.exports = async opts => {
     }
 
     const assetDownloadPath = path.join(tmpDir, assetName);
+    const mirrorUrl = getMirrorUrl();
+
     try {
-        await getAssetFromGithubApi(opts, assetName, tmpDir)
+        await downloadAsset(opts, assetName, tmpDir, mirrorUrl)
     } catch (e) {
         console.log('Deleting invalid download cache');
         try {