diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 73cc961..a69d920 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-# r.releases.utils 0.0.1.9000 (development)
-
+# r.releases.utils 0.0.2
 
+* Trim white space when processing URLs.
 
 # r.releases.utils 0.0.1
 
diff --git a/R/assert_package.R b/R/assert_package.R
index 09d29e4..dd842a4 100644
--- a/R/assert_package.R
+++ b/R/assert_package.R
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ assert_package <- function(path) {
   if (!file.exists(path)) {
     stop(paste("file", shQuote(path), "does not exist"))
   }
-  name <- basename(path)
+  name <- trimws(basename(path))
   url <- try(readLines(path, warn = FALSE), silent = TRUE)
   if (inherits(url, "try-error")) {
     stop(paste("Problem reading file", shQuote(path)))
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ assert_package_contents <- function(name, url) {
   if (!is_character_scalar(url)) {
     stop("Invalid package URL")
   }
+  url <- trimws(url)
   good_url <- grepl(
     pattern = "^https?://[a-zA-Z0-9.-]+\\.[a-zA-Z]{2,3}(/\\S*)?$",
     x = url
diff --git a/R/build_universe.R b/R/build_universe.R
index 25b8344..ab2a461 100644
--- a/R/build_universe.R
+++ b/R/build_universe.R
@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ build_universe <- function(input = getwd(), output = "packages.json") {
     warn = FALSE
   )
   out <- data.frame(
-    package = basename(packages),
-    url = urls,
+    package = trimws(basename(packages)),
+    url = trimws(urls),
     branch = "*release"
   )
   if (!file.exists(dirname(output))) {
diff --git a/inst/WORDLIST b/inst/WORDLIST
index dd39bca..d6f5876 100644
--- a/inst/WORDLIST
+++ b/inst/WORDLIST
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@ GitLab
 JSON
 json
 repo
+pkgdown