diff --git a/.github/workflows/nightly.yml b/.github/workflows/nightly.yml
index 21dd21b34d3e..fdf1c00c26bf 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/nightly.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/nightly.yml
@@ -4,6 +4,12 @@ on:
   push:
     branches:
       - mealie-next
+    paths-ignore:
+      - '*.md'
+      - '.devcontainer/**'
+      # I'm not excluding .github as changes in there might be to workflows etc
+      - '.vscode/**'
+      - 'docs/**'
 
 concurrency:
   group: nightly-${{ github.ref }}