diff --git a/src/invidious/helpers/handlers.cr b/src/invidious/helpers/handlers.cr
index 9d5ebd23..b613488a 100644
--- a/src/invidious/helpers/handlers.cr
+++ b/src/invidious/helpers/handlers.cr
@@ -97,6 +97,16 @@ class APIHandler < Kemal::Handler
       if env.response.headers["Content-Type"]?.try &.== "application/json"
         response = JSON.parse(response)
 
+        if env.params.query["fields"]?
+          fields_text = env.params.query["fields"]
+          begin
+            JSONFilter.filter(response, fields_text)
+          rescue ex
+            env.response.status_code = 400
+            response = {"error" => ex.message}
+          end
+        end
+
         if env.params.query["pretty"]? && env.params.query["pretty"] == "1"
           response = response.to_pretty_json
         else
diff --git a/src/invidious/helpers/json_filter.cr b/src/invidious/helpers/json_filter.cr
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e4b57cea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/invidious/helpers/json_filter.cr
@@ -0,0 +1,248 @@
+module JSONFilter
+  alias BracketIndex = Hash(Int64, Int64)
+
+  alias GroupedFieldsValue = String | Array(GroupedFieldsValue)
+  alias GroupedFieldsList = Array(GroupedFieldsValue)
+
+  class FieldsParser
+    class ParseError < Exception
+    end
+
+    # Returns the `Regex` pattern used to match nest groups
+    def self.nest_group_pattern : Regex
+      # uses a '.' character to match json keys as they are allowed
+      # to contain any unicode codepoint
+      /(?:|,)(?<groupname>[^,\n]*?)\(/
+    end
+
+    # Returns the `Regex` pattern used to check if there are any empty nest groups
+    def self.unnamed_nest_group_pattern : Regex
+      /^\(|\(\(|\/\(/
+    end
+
+    def self.parse_fields(fields_text : String) : Nil
+      if fields_text.empty?
+        raise FieldsParser::ParseError.new "Fields is empty"
+      end
+
+      opening_bracket_count = fields_text.count('(')
+      closing_bracket_count = fields_text.count(')')
+
+      if opening_bracket_count != closing_bracket_count
+        bracket_type = opening_bracket_count > closing_bracket_count ? "opening" : "closing"
+        raise FieldsParser::ParseError.new "There are too many #{bracket_type} brackets (#{opening_bracket_count}:#{closing_bracket_count})"
+      elsif match_result = unnamed_nest_group_pattern.match(fields_text)
+        raise FieldsParser::ParseError.new "Unnamed nest group at position #{match_result.begin}"
+      end
+
+      # first, handle top-level single nested properties: items/id, playlistItems/snippet, etc
+      parse_single_nests(fields_text) { |nest_list| yield nest_list }
+
+      # next, handle nest groups: items(id, etag, etc)
+      parse_nest_groups(fields_text) { |nest_list| yield nest_list }
+    end
+
+    def self.parse_single_nests(fields_text : String) : Nil
+      single_nests = remove_nest_groups(fields_text)
+
+      if !single_nests.empty?
+        property_nests = single_nests.split(',')
+
+        property_nests.each do |nest|
+          nest_list = nest.split('/')
+          if nest_list.includes? ""
+            raise FieldsParser::ParseError.new "Empty key in nest list: #{nest_list}"
+          end
+          yield nest_list
+        end
+        # else
+        #   raise FieldsParser::ParseError.new "Empty key in nest list 22: #{fields_text} | #{single_nests}"
+      end
+    end
+
+    def self.parse_nest_groups(fields_text : String) : Nil
+      nest_stack = [] of NamedTuple(group_name: String, closing_bracket_index: Int64)
+      bracket_pairs = get_bracket_pairs(fields_text, true)
+
+      text_index = 0
+      regex_index = 0
+
+      while regex_result = self.nest_group_pattern.match(fields_text, regex_index)
+        raw_match = regex_result[0]
+        group_name = regex_result["groupname"]
+
+        text_index = regex_result.begin
+        regex_index = regex_result.end
+
+        if text_index.nil? || regex_index.nil?
+          raise FieldsParser::ParseError.new "Received invalid index while parsing nest groups: text_index: #{text_index} | regex_index: #{regex_index}"
+        end
+
+        offset = raw_match.starts_with?(',') ? 1 : 0
+
+        opening_bracket_index = (text_index + group_name.size) + offset
+        closing_bracket_index = bracket_pairs[opening_bracket_index]
+        content_start = opening_bracket_index + 1
+
+        content = fields_text[content_start...closing_bracket_index]
+
+        if content.empty?
+          raise FieldsParser::ParseError.new "Empty nest group at position #{content_start}"
+        else
+          content = remove_nest_groups(content)
+        end
+
+        while nest_stack.size > 0 && closing_bracket_index > nest_stack[nest_stack.size - 1][:closing_bracket_index]
+          if nest_stack.size
+            nest_stack.pop
+          end
+        end
+
+        group_name.split('/').each do |group_name|
+          nest_stack.push({
+            group_name:            group_name,
+            closing_bracket_index: closing_bracket_index,
+          })
+        end
+
+        if !content.empty?
+          properties = content.split(',')
+
+          properties.each do |prop|
+            nest_list = nest_stack.map { |nest_prop| nest_prop[:group_name] }
+
+            if !prop.empty?
+              if prop.includes?('/')
+                parse_single_nests(prop) { |list| nest_list += list }
+              else
+                nest_list.push prop
+              end
+            else
+              raise FieldsParser::ParseError.new "Empty key in nest list: #{nest_list << prop}"
+            end
+
+            yield nest_list
+          end
+        end
+      end
+    end
+
+    def self.remove_nest_groups(text : String) : String
+      content_bracket_pairs = get_bracket_pairs(text, false)
+
+      content_bracket_pairs.each_key.to_a.reverse.each do |opening_bracket|
+        closing_bracket = content_bracket_pairs[opening_bracket]
+        last_comma = text.rindex(',', opening_bracket) || 0
+
+        text = text[0...last_comma] + text[closing_bracket + 1...text.size]
+      end
+
+      return text.starts_with?(',') ? text[1...text.size] : text
+    end
+
+    def self.get_bracket_pairs(text : String, recursive = true) : BracketIndex
+      istart = [] of Int64
+      bracket_index = BracketIndex.new
+
+      text.each_char_with_index do |char, index|
+        if char == '('
+          istart.push(index.to_i64)
+        end
+
+        if char == ')'
+          begin
+            opening = istart.pop
+            if recursive || (!recursive && istart.size == 0)
+              bracket_index[opening] = index.to_i64
+            end
+          rescue
+            raise FieldsParser::ParseError.new "No matching opening parenthesis at: #{index}"
+          end
+        end
+      end
+
+      if istart.size != 0
+        idx = istart.pop
+        raise FieldsParser::ParseError.new "No matching closing parenthesis at: #{idx}"
+      end
+
+      return bracket_index
+    end
+  end
+
+  class FieldsGrouper
+    alias SkeletonValue = Hash(String, SkeletonValue)
+
+    def self.create_json_skeleton(fields_text : String) : SkeletonValue
+      root_hash = {} of String => SkeletonValue
+
+      FieldsParser.parse_fields(fields_text) do |nest_list|
+        current_item = root_hash
+        nest_list.each do |key|
+          if current_item[key]?
+            current_item = current_item[key]
+          else
+            current_item[key] = {} of String => SkeletonValue
+            current_item = current_item[key]
+          end
+        end
+      end
+      root_hash
+    end
+
+    def self.create_grouped_fields_list(json_skeleton : SkeletonValue) : GroupedFieldsList
+      grouped_fields_list = GroupedFieldsList.new
+      json_skeleton.each do |key, value|
+        grouped_fields_list.push key
+
+        nested_keys = create_grouped_fields_list(value)
+        grouped_fields_list.push nested_keys unless nested_keys.empty?
+      end
+      return grouped_fields_list
+    end
+  end
+
+  class FilterError < Exception
+  end
+
+  def self.filter(item : JSON::Any, fields_text : String, in_place : Bool = true)
+    skeleton = FieldsGrouper.create_json_skeleton(fields_text)
+    grouped_fields_list = FieldsGrouper.create_grouped_fields_list(skeleton)
+    filter(item, grouped_fields_list, in_place)
+  end
+
+  def self.filter(item : JSON::Any, grouped_fields_list : GroupedFieldsList, in_place : Bool = true) : JSON::Any
+    item = item.clone unless in_place
+
+    if !item.as_h? && !item.as_a?
+      raise FilterError.new "Can't filter '#{item}' by #{grouped_fields_list}"
+    end
+
+    top_level_keys = Array(String).new
+    grouped_fields_list.each do |value|
+      if value.is_a? String
+        top_level_keys.push value
+      elsif value.is_a? Array
+        if !top_level_keys.empty?
+          key_to_filter = top_level_keys.last
+
+          if item.as_h?
+            filter(item[key_to_filter], value, in_place: true)
+          elsif item.as_a?
+            item.as_a.each { |arr_item| filter(arr_item[key_to_filter], value, in_place: true) }
+          end
+        else
+          raise FilterError.new "Tried to filter while top level keys list is empty"
+        end
+      end
+    end
+
+    if item.as_h?
+      item.as_h.select! top_level_keys
+    elsif item.as_a?
+      item.as_a.map { |value| filter(value, top_level_keys, in_place: true) }
+    end
+
+    item
+  end
+end