diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 0dca172..53464b3 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: roreviewapi
 Title: Plumber API to report package structure and function
-Version: 0.1.0.061
+Version: 0.1.0.062
 Authors@R: 
     person("Mark", "Padgham", , "mark.padgham@email.com", role = c("aut", "cre"),
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-2172-5265"))
diff --git a/R/dl_repo.R b/R/dl_repo.R
index 821cf35..48fb82f 100644
--- a/R/dl_repo.R
+++ b/R/dl_repo.R
@@ -7,6 +7,18 @@
 #' @export
 dl_gh_repo <- function (u, branch = NULL) {
 
+    subdir <- get_subdir_from_url (u)
+    if (length (subdir) > 0L) {
+        domains <- strsplit (u, "\\/+") [[1]] [-1] # rm "https"
+        i <- which (domains == "tree")
+        if (length (i) == 0L) {
+            stop ("URL [", u, "] is improperly formatted.", call. = FALSE)
+        }
+        u <- paste0 (
+            "https://",
+            paste0 (domains [seq_len (i - 1)], collapse = "/")
+        )
+    }
     repo <- utils::tail (strsplit (u, "/") [[1]], 1)
     org <- utils::tail (strsplit (u, "/") [[1]], 2) [1]
 
diff --git a/codemeta.json b/codemeta.json
index 1cde987..3edd6c6 100644
--- a/codemeta.json
+++ b/codemeta.json
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
   "codeRepository": "https://github.com/ropensci-review-tools/roreviewapi",
   "issueTracker": "https://github.com/ropensci-review-tools/roreviewapi/issues",
   "license": "https://spdx.org/licenses/GPL-3.0",
-  "version": "0.1.0.061",
+  "version": "0.1.0.062",
   "programmingLanguage": {
     "@type": "ComputerLanguage",
     "name": "R",