diff --git a/meta-citadel/recipes-core/citadel-tools/citadel-tools_0.1.0.bb b/meta-citadel/recipes-core/citadel-tools/citadel-tools_0.1.0.bb
index b3aa89e..7b4ca2f 100644
--- a/meta-citadel/recipes-core/citadel-tools/citadel-tools_0.1.0.bb
+++ b/meta-citadel/recipes-core/citadel-tools/citadel-tools_0.1.0.bb
@@ -13,7 +13,12 @@ SRCREV = "24f786cf75d093b617511ef568e3f231b52b320d"
 # get git repo owner from citadel to find the correct citadel-tools repo path
 python () {
     import subprocess
-    git_owner = subprocess.check_output(['git', 'remote', 'get-url', 'origin']).strip().decode('utf-8').split('/')[0].split(':')[1]
+    git_url = subprocess.check_output(['git', 'remote', 'get-url', 'origin']).strip().decode('utf-8')
+    if git_url.startswith("git"):
+        git_owner = git_url.split('/')[0].split(':')[1]
+    else:
+        git_owner = git_url.split('/')[3]
+
     d.setVar("GIT_REPO_OWNER", git_owner)
 }