diff --git a/apps/api/src/scraper/WebScraper/crawler.ts b/apps/api/src/scraper/WebScraper/crawler.ts
index 59b5364..640eada 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/scraper/WebScraper/crawler.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/scraper/WebScraper/crawler.ts
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ export class WebCrawler {
   private filterLinks(sitemapLinks: string[], limit: number, maxDepth: number): string[] {
     return sitemapLinks
       .filter((link) => {
-        const url = new URL(link);
+        const url = new URL(link.trim(), this.baseUrl);
         const path = url.pathname;
         
         const depth = getURLDepth(url.toString());