diff --git a/docs/json-rpc-api.markdown b/docs/json-rpc-api.markdown
index 68162a3..b33b7b0 100644
--- a/docs/json-rpc-api.markdown
+++ b/docs/json-rpc-api.markdown
@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ Response example:
 
 ### getItems
 
-- Purpose: **Get list o items**
+- Purpose: **Get list of items**
 - Parameters:
     - **since_id** (integer, optional) Returns only feeds from this item id
     - **item_ids** ([]integer, optional) Returns only items in this list
@@ -433,6 +433,61 @@ Request example:
 
 Response example:
 
+```json
+{
+    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
+    "result": [
+        {
+            "id": "3",
+            "checksum": "7f4b791f",
+            "title": "Miniflux 1.1.8 released",
+            "updated": "1442016000",
+            "url": "https:\/\/miniflux.net\/news\/version-1.1.8",
+            "enclosure_url": "",
+            "enclosure_type": "",
+            "bookmark": "0",
+            "feed_id": "1",
+            "status": "unread",
+            "content": "<ul>\n<li>Add feed groups (tags)<\/li>\n<li>Add custom rules directory support<\/li>\n<li>Add no referrer policy in meta tags and content security directives<\/li>\n<li>Update of PicoFeed with new scraper rules<\/li>\n<li>Enable Strict-Transport-Security header for HTTPS<\/li>\n<li>Change CSP directives to allow data url (Fix issue with Firefox 40)<\/li>\n<li>Toggle text direction for full content preview as well<\/li>\n<li>Add Russian translation<\/li>\n<li>Updated Czech translation<\/li>\n<li>Mark items on page 2+ read as well<\/li>\n<li>Allow to override the maximum feed size limit<\/li>\n<li>Added a config option to select how many concurrent refreshes are done on the subscription page<\/li>\n<li>Catch exceptions for image proxy<\/li>\n<li>Improve CSS for preview full content<\/li>\n<li>Minor feed edit dialog improvements<\/li>\n<li>Expose all feed errors to the frontend when adding a subscription<\/li>\n<li>Keep selected options on feed adding error<\/li>\n<li>Fix bug when the summery helper doesn&#039;t contains whitespace<\/li>\n<li>Fix Fever API bug: enable send bookmark to third-party services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Thanks to all contributors!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/miniflux.net\/miniflux-1.1.8.zip\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Download archive<\/a><\/p>",
+            "language": "",
+            "rtl": "0",
+            "author": "Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Guillot",
+            "site_url": "https:\/\/miniflux.net\/",
+            "feed_title": "Miniflux"
+        },
+        [..]
+    ],
+    "id":84429548
+}
+```
+### getItemsByStatus
+
+- Purpose: **Get list of items by status**
+- Parameters:
+    - **status** (string)
+    - **feed_ids** ([]integer, optional) Returns only items from this list of feeds
+    - **offset** (integer, optional) Number of offset items (used for pagination)
+    - **limit** (integer, optional, default=50) Change number of items returned
+    - **order_column** (string, optional, default='updated') Order table column
+    - **order_direction** (string, optional, default='desc') Order direction
+- Result on success: **list of item objects**
+- Result on failure: **false**
+
+Request example:
+
+```json
+{
+  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
+  "method": "getItems",
+  "id": 84429548,
+  "params": {
+    "status": "unread"
+  }
+}
+```
+
+Response example:
+
 ```json
 {
     "jsonrpc": "2.0",
@@ -732,4 +787,4 @@ Response example:
     ],
     "id": 1029539064
 }
-```
\ No newline at end of file
+```
diff --git a/jsonrpc.php b/jsonrpc.php
index 219455b..99de0cd 100644
--- a/jsonrpc.php
+++ b/jsonrpc.php
@@ -134,6 +134,12 @@ $procedureHandler->withCallback('getItems', function ($since_id = null, array $i
     return Model\Item\get_items($user_id, $since_id, $item_ids, $limit);
 });
 
+// Get items by status
+$procedureHandler->withCallback('getItemsByStatus', function ($status, array $feed_ids = array(), $offset = null, $limit = 50, $order_column = 'updated', $order_direction = 'desc') {
+    $user_id = SessionStorage::getInstance()->getUserId();
+    return Model\Item\get_items_by_status($user_id, $status, $feed_ids, $offset, $limit, $order_column, $order_direction);
+});
+
 // Get one item
 $procedureHandler->withCallback('getItem', function ($item_id) {
     $user_id = SessionStorage::getInstance()->getUserId();
diff --git a/tests/functional/ApiTest.php b/tests/functional/ApiTest.php
index f8425e1..50efcc0 100644
--- a/tests/functional/ApiTest.php
+++ b/tests/functional/ApiTest.php
@@ -101,6 +101,50 @@ class ApiTest extends BaseApiTest
         $this->assertNotEmpty($items[0]['url']);
     }
 
+    public function testGetItemsByStatusUnread()
+    {
+        $items = $this->getApiClient()->getItemsByStatus(array('status' => 'unread'));
+        $this->assertNotEmpty($items);
+        $this->assertEquals(1, $items[0]['id']);
+        $this->assertEquals(1, $items[0]['feed_id']);
+        $this->assertNotEmpty($items[0]['title']);
+        $this->assertNotEmpty($items[0]['author']);
+        $this->assertNotEmpty($items[0]['content']);
+        $this->assertNotEmpty($items[0]['url']);
+        $this->assertEquals('unread', $items[0]['status']);
+    }
+
+    public function testGetItemsByStatusRead()
+    {
+        $items = $this->getApiClient()->getItemsByStatus(array('status' => 'read'));
+        $this->assertEmpty($items);
+    }
+
+    public function testGetItemsByFeedIds()
+    {
+        $items = $this->getApiClient()->getItemsByStatus(array(
+          'status' => 'unread',
+          'feed_ids' => array(1)
+        ));
+        $this->assertNotEmpty($items);
+        $this->assertEquals(1, $items[0]['id']);
+        $this->assertEquals(1, $items[0]['feed_id']);
+        $this->assertNotEmpty($items[0]['title']);
+        $this->assertNotEmpty($items[0]['author']);
+        $this->assertNotEmpty($items[0]['content']);
+        $this->assertNotEmpty($items[0]['url']);
+        $this->assertEquals('unread', $items[0]['status']);
+    }
+
+    public function testGetItemsByFeedIdsNonExist()
+    {
+        $items = $this->getApiClient()->getItemsByStatus(array(
+          'status' => 'unread',
+          'feed_ids' => array(2)
+        ));
+        $this->assertEmpty($items);
+    }
+
     public function testGetItemsSinceId()
     {
         $items = $this->getApiClient()->getItems(array('since_id' => 2));