diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+0.8.10
+------
+
+ - Strip '/' from end of urls when crawling
+
 0.8.9
 ------
 
diff --git a/scrape/__init__.py b/scrape/__init__.py
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/scrape/__init__.py
+++ b/scrape/__init__.py
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 """scrape is a rule-based web crawler and information extraction tool capable of manipulating and merging new and existing documents. XML Path Language (XPath) and regular expressions are used to define rules for filtering content and web traversal. Output can be any one of text, CSV, PDF, and/or HTML formats.
 """
-__version__ = '0.8.9'
+__version__ = '0.8.10'
diff --git a/scrape/utils.py b/scrape/utils.py
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/scrape/utils.py
+++ b/scrape/utils.py
@@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ def add_scheme(url):
 
 def remove_scheme(url):
     """Remove scheme from URL"""
-    return url.replace('http://', '').replace('https://', '')
+    return url.replace('http://', '').replace('https://', '').rstrip('/')
 
 
 def check_scheme(url):
Strip '/' from end of urls when crawling