diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 230e2a3..754890e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -141,10 +141,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: engineerd/configurator@v0.0.8
         with:
           name: "kind"
-          fromGitHubReleases: "true"
-          repo: "kubernetes-sigs/kind"
           urlTemplate: "https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind/releases/download/{{version}}/kind-linux-amd64"
-          version: "latest"
           token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
 
       - name: Testing
@@ -152,6 +149,27 @@ jobs:
           kind --help
 ```
 
+Note that when the `urlTemplate` is a GitHub Releases Download URL, `fromGitHubReleases` will be infered to be `true`, the `repo` will be pulled from the URL, and `version` will be infered to be latest. You can override any of these by explicitly providing a value.
+
+For example, if you wanted to pin the version to to a specific range:
+
+```yaml
+jobs:
+  kind:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: engineerd/configurator@v0.0.8
+        with:
+          name: "kind"
+          urlTemplate: "https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind/releases/download/{{version}}/kind-linux-amd64"
+          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          version: "^v0.11.1"
+
+      - name: Testing
+        run: |
+          kind --help
+```
+
 ## Other examples
 
 - download an executable from a given URL and move it to a folder in path with
diff --git a/src/configurator.ts b/src/configurator.ts
index 6ad3e62..a8489da 100644
--- a/src/configurator.ts
+++ b/src/configurator.ts
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ const Version: string = "version";
 const IncludePrereleases: string = "includePrereleases";
 const URLTemplate: string = "urlTemplate";
 
+const GitHubReleasesRegex: RegExp = /^https:\/\/github\.com\/(?<repo>.*\/.*)\/releases\/download\//i;
+
 export function getConfig(): Configurator {
   return new Configurator(
     core.getInput(NameInput),
@@ -67,6 +69,22 @@ export class Configurator {
     this.version = version;
     this.includePrereleases = includePrereleases == "true";
     this.urlTemplate = urlTemplate;
+
+    if (!!urlTemplate && GitHubReleasesRegex.test(this.urlTemplate)) {
+      const [,urlRepo] = GitHubReleasesRegex.exec(this.urlTemplate)!;
+
+      if (!fromGitHubRelease) {
+        this.fromGitHubReleases = true;
+      }
+
+      if (!repo) {
+        this.repo = urlRepo;
+      }
+
+      if (!version) {
+        this.version = "latest";
+      }
+    }
   }
 
   async configure() {
diff --git a/test/action.ts b/test/action.ts
index 7b45290..73b12df 100644
--- a/test/action.ts
+++ b/test/action.ts
@@ -214,6 +214,41 @@ describe("test GitHub release download", async () => {
     await c.configure();
     assert.equal(fs.existsSync(path.join(cfg.binPath(), c.name)), true);
   });
+
+  it("correctly overrides infered configuration based on GitHub release input", async () => {
+    const input = {
+      INPUT_NAME: "kind",
+      // before running this test, run export GITHUB_TOKEN=<github-token>
+      INPUT_TOKEN: process.env["GITHUB_TOKEN"],
+      INPUT_URLTEMPLATE:
+        "https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind/releases/download/{{version}}/kind-linux-amd64",
+    };
+
+    for (const key in input) process.env[key] = input[key];
+
+    let c = cfg.getConfig();
+    assert.equal(c.fromGitHubReleases, true);
+    assert.equal(c.repo, "kubernetes-sigs/kind");
+    assert.equal(c.version, "latest");
+  });
+
+  it("correctly infers configuration based on GitHub release input", async () => {
+    const input = {
+      INPUT_NAME: "kind",
+      // before running this test, run export GITHUB_TOKEN=<github-token>
+      INPUT_TOKEN: process.env["GITHUB_TOKEN"],
+      INPUT_VERSION: "^v0.11.1",
+      INPUT_URLTEMPLATE:
+        "https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind/releases/download/{{version}}/kind-linux-amd64",
+    };
+
+    for (const key in input) process.env[key] = input[key];
+
+    let c = cfg.getConfig();
+    assert.equal(c.fromGitHubReleases, true);
+    assert.equal(c.repo, "kubernetes-sigs/kind");
+    assert.equal(c.version, "^v0.11.1");
+  });
 });
 
 // given that `getTag` returns the latest version that satisfies certain constraints,