diff --git a/search-app/server/config/config.json b/search-app/server/config/config.json
index 95ba071..eb03072 100644
--- a/search-app/server/config/config.json
+++ b/search-app/server/config/config.json
@@ -3,9 +3,17 @@
     "TAVILY_API_KEY": "",
     "SDSA_API_KEY": "demo-api-key",
     "pygeoapi_instances": [
+        {"url": "https://api.weather.gc.ca/", 
+        "exclude_collections": [
+            "https://api.weather.gc.ca/collections/climate:dcs:historical:seasonal:absolute?lang=en",
+            "https://api.weather.gc.ca/collections/climate:dcs:projected:monthly:absolute?lang=en"
+            ]
+        }
+    ],
+    "web_geojson_resources": [
         "https://webais.demo.52north.org/pygeoapi"
     ],
-    "local_files": [
+    "local_geojson_files": [
         "./data/"
     ]
 }
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diff --git a/search-app/server/connectors/geojson_osm.py b/search-app/server/connectors/geojson_osm.py
index 1799c68..4f9d7eb 100644
--- a/search-app/server/connectors/geojson_osm.py
+++ b/search-app/server/connectors/geojson_osm.py
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ def __init__(self, file_dir: str = None, tag_name: str = "building"):
             self.features =  self._filter_meaningful_features(gj, tag_name)
         else:
             if not file_dir:
-                file_dir = config.local_files
+                file_dir = config.local_geojson_files
             logging.info(f"Looking for files in following dir: {file_dir[0]}")
             gj_files = []
             for file in glob.glob(f"{file_dir[0]}*.geojson"):
diff --git a/search-app/server/connectors/pygeoapi_retriever.py b/search-app/server/connectors/pygeoapi_retriever.py
index 9c3a96a..c81e138 100644
--- a/search-app/server/connectors/pygeoapi_retriever.py
+++ b/search-app/server/connectors/pygeoapi_retriever.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 from typing import List, Dict
 from langchain.schema import Document
 from config.config import Config
+import re 
 
 logging.basicConfig()
 logging.getLogger().setLevel(logging.INFO)
@@ -15,7 +16,7 @@ def __init__(self, urls: List[str] = None):
         if urls:
             self.urls = urls
         else:
-            self.urls = config.pygeoapi_instances
+            self.instances = config.pygeoapi_instances
 
     async def _get_queryables(self, session: aiohttp.ClientSession, collection_id: str, base_url: str) -> dict:
         """
@@ -32,16 +33,26 @@ async def _get_queryables(self, session: aiohttp.ClientSession, collection_id: s
                 return queryables['properties']
             return {}
 
-    async def _get_collections(self, base_url: str) -> List[dict]:
+    async def _get_collections(self, instance) -> List[dict]:
         """
         Get all collections of a pygeoapi instance asynchronously.
         """
+        base_url = instance["url"]
         logging.info(f"Fetching collections of pygeoapi instance: {base_url}")
 
+        exclude_urls = instance["exclude_collections"]
+        pattern = r'collections/([^?]+)'
+        exclude_collections = list(map(lambda url:  re.search(pattern, url).group(1), exclude_urls))
+
+        logging.info(f"Excluding following collections from indexing operation: {exclude_collections}")
+
+
         async with aiohttp.ClientSession() as session:
             async with session.get(f'{base_url}/collections/') as response:
                 if response.status == 200:
                     collections = await response.json()
+                    # exluding collections
+                    collections['collections'] = [coll for coll in collections['collections'] if coll['id'] not in exclude_collections]
                     logging.debug(collections)
 
                     tasks = [
@@ -76,12 +87,12 @@ def _generate_docs(self, base_url:str, collections: List[dict]) -> List[Document
                                    "extent": str(doc["extent"])}) for doc in collections]
         return docs
 
-    async def get_collections_and_generate_docs(self, url) -> Document:
-        collections = await self._get_collections(url)
-        docs = self._generate_docs(url, collections)
+    async def get_collections_and_generate_docs(self, instance) -> Document:
+        collections = await self._get_collections(instance)
+        docs = self._generate_docs(instance["url"], collections)
         return docs
 
     async def get_docs_for_all_instances(self) -> List[Document]:
-        tasks = [self.get_collections_and_generate_docs(url) for url in self.urls]
+        tasks = [self.get_collections_and_generate_docs(instance) for instance in self.instances]
         all_docs = await asyncio.gather(*tasks)
         return all_docs[0]
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