diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 53f33505..eb52c09d 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -19,6 +19,6 @@ deps =
     flake8
 commands =
     # stop the build if there are Python syntax errors or undefined names
-    flake8 . --count --select=E9,F63,F7,F82 --show-source --statistics
+    flake8 . --count --select=E9,F63,F7,F82 --exclude telethon_examples/ --show-source --statistics
     # exit-zero treats all errors as warnings. The GitHub editor is 127 chars wide
-    flake8 . --count --exit-zero --exclude telethon/tl/,telethon/errors/rpcerrorlist.py --max-complexity=10 --max-line-length=127 --statistics
+    flake8 . --count --exit-zero --exclude telethon/tl/,telethon_examples/,telethon/errors/rpcerrorlist.py --max-complexity=10 --max-line-length=127 --statistics