diff --git a/app_urls/fetcher/src/fetch_search_instances.py b/app_urls/fetcher/src/fetch_search_instances.py
index ba87104..5c41e22 100644
--- a/app_urls/fetcher/src/fetch_search_instances.py
+++ b/app_urls/fetcher/src/fetch_search_instances.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ from .fetch_utils_gnews import decode_gnews_urls
 from .logger import get_logger
 logger = get_logger()
 
+from furl import furl
 from gnews import GNews
 from duckduckgo_search import DDGS
 from GoogleNews import GoogleNews
@@ -40,6 +41,9 @@ class FetcherAbstract(ABC):
             # Ensure URL host in URL
             raw_urls = [u for u in raw_urls if url_host_clean in u]
 
+        # Remove URL parameters, e.g. "?param=1234&h=yes"
+        raw_urls = [ furl(u).remove(furl(u).args).url for u in raw_urls ]
+
         return raw_urls
 
     def fetch_articles(self, db_writer, obj_search):
diff --git a/app_urls/requirements.txt b/app_urls/requirements.txt
index fc0fe9b..69df09e 100644
--- a/app_urls/requirements.txt
+++ b/app_urls/requirements.txt
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ gnews
 GoogleNews
 duckduckgo_search
 git+https://github.com/tasos-py/Search-Engines-Scraper.git
+furl
 langdetect
 ollama
 PyJWT
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