diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 49c4932d..36f06696 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Usage: codacy-coverage-reporter report
   --coverage-reports | -r  <your project coverage file name (supports globs)>
   --partial  <if the report is partial>
   --prefix  <the project path prefix>
-  --skip-ssl-verification` [default: false] - Skip the SSL certificate verification when communicating with the Codacy API
+  --skip-ssl-verification [default: false] - Skip the SSL certificate verification when communicating with the Codacy API
   --force-coverage-parser  <your coverage parser>
         Available parsers are: opencover,clover,lcov,phpunit,jacoco,dotcover,cobertura,go
 
@@ -51,6 +51,12 @@ Usage: codacy-coverage-reporter report
  --> Succeeded!
 ```
 
+Codacy Coverage Reporter can be run with the `CODACY_REPORTER_OPTIONS` environment variable. This is useful for passing options to the reporter without having to modify the script.
+
+```
+CODACY_REPORTER_OPTIONS="--skip-ssl-verification true"
+```
+
 ## What is Codacy?
 
 [Codacy](https://www.codacy.com/) is an Automated Code Review Tool that monitors your technical debt, helps you improve your code quality, teaches best practices to your developers, and helps you save time in Code Reviews.
diff --git a/get.sh b/get.sh
index d063c197..7ec39670 100755
--- a/get.sh
+++ b/get.sh
@@ -231,13 +231,22 @@ if [ -z "$run_command" ]
 then
     fatal "Codacy coverage reporter binary could not be found."
 fi
+if [ -z "$CODACY_REPORTER_OPTIONS" ] || [ -n "$CODACY_REPORTER_OPTIONS" ]; then
+    EXTRA_ARGUMENTS="$CODACY_REPORTER_OPTIONS"
+else
+    EXTRA_ARGUMENTS=""
+fi
+
 
 if [ "$#" -eq 1 ] && [ "$1" = "download" ];
 then
     log "$g" "Codacy reporter download succeeded";
 elif [ "$#" -gt 0 ];
 then
-    eval "$run_command $*"
+    log "Running command: $run_command $* $EXTRA_ARGUMENTS"
+    eval "$run_command $* $EXTRA_ARGUMENTS"
 else
-    eval "$run_command \"report\""
+    log "Running command: $run_command \"report\" $EXTRA_ARGUMENTS"
+    eval "$run_command \"report\" $EXTRA_ARGUMENTS"
 fi
+