diff --git a/bin/bashdatacatalog-fetch b/bin/bashdatacatalog-fetch
index a2859ee..4b866d4 100755
--- a/bin/bashdatacatalog-fetch
+++ b/bin/bashdatacatalog-fetch
@@ -31,13 +31,14 @@ function download_file() {
 
 function download_metadata() {
     echo "Fetching metadata from '${BDC_COLLECTION_URL}'"
-    download_file ${BDC_COLLECTION_URL}/.assets.md5 .assets.md5 
+    # remove trailing stroke from BDC_COLLECTION_URL to avoid issues in download
+    download_file ${BDC_COLLECTION_URL%%/}/.assets.md5 .assets.md5
     if [ ! -f .assets.md5 ]; then
         echo "Failed to download '.assets.md5' from ${BDC_COLLECTION_URL}"
         exit 1 
     fi
-    download_file ${BDC_COLLECTION_URL}/.temporal_assets.sed .temporal_assets.sed
-    download_file ${BDC_COLLECTION_URL}/.ignore.grep .ignore.grep
+    download_file ${BDC_COLLECTION_URL%%/}/.temporal_assets.sed .temporal_assets.sed
+    download_file ${BDC_COLLECTION_URL%%/}/.ignore.grep .ignore.grep
 }