diff --git a/lib/tasks/reporting.rake b/lib/tasks/reporting.rake
index 1d355be82f3..71136f9646a 100644
--- a/lib/tasks/reporting.rake
+++ b/lib/tasks/reporting.rake
@@ -12,4 +12,15 @@ namespace :reporting do
   task published_attachments_report: :environment do
     Reports::PublishedAttachmentsReport.new.report
   end
+
+  desc "Prints a list of content IDs that documents whose live edition contains a given regular expression"
+  task :matching_docs, [:regex] => :environment do |_, args|
+    regex = Regexp.new(/#{args[:regex]}/)
+
+    Document.where.not(live_edition_id: nil).find_in_batches(batch_size: 1000).each do |document|
+      next unless document.editions.published.any?
+
+      puts document.content_id if regex.match?(document.editions.published.last.body)
+    end
+  end
 end
diff --git a/test/unit/lib/tasks/reporting_test.rb b/test/unit/lib/tasks/reporting_test.rb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..88e3a65b7b3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/unit/lib/tasks/reporting_test.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+require "test_helper"
+require "rake"
+
+class ReportingRake < ActiveSupport::TestCase
+  setup do
+    @document_1 = create(:published_edition, body: "Some text 1")
+    @document_2 = create(:draft_edition, body: "Some text 2")
+    @document_3 = create(:published_edition, body: "Some other text 1")
+  end
+
+  teardown do
+    Rake::Task["reporting:matching_docs"].reenable
+  end
+
+  test "it prints the content IDs of the matching documents from published editions" do
+    assert_output(/#{@document_1.document.content_id}/) { Rake.application.invoke_task "reporting:matching_docs[Some text]" }
+  end
+
+  test "it does not print the content IDs of the matching documents from draft editions" do
+    assert_output(/^(?!.*#{@document_2.document.content_id}).*$/) { Rake.application.invoke_task "reporting:matching_docs[Some text]" }
+  end
+
+  test "it does not print the content IDs of the non-matching documents from published editions" do
+    assert_output(/^(?!.*#{@document_3.document.content_id}).*$/) { Rake.application.invoke_task "reporting:matching_docs[Some text]" }
+  end
+end