diff --git a/src/ro_crate.py b/src/ro_crate.py
index 6330b41360c657e60d60190a7bd040b159830ede..22c117923dcc9dd79caba53aaf0287f67644f72d 100644
--- a/src/ro_crate.py
+++ b/src/ro_crate.py
@@ -155,5 +155,9 @@ class RO_Crate:
         self.fill_from_workflow()
         self.dico.pop("temp_directory")
 
-        with open(f"{self.workflow.get_output_dir()}/ro-crate-metadata-{self.workflow.get_name()}.json", 'w') as output_file :
+        name = self.workflow.get_name()
+        name = name.replace('github.com/', '')
+        name = re.sub(r"^[ .]|[/<>:\"\\|?*]+|[ .]$", "-", name)
+
+        with open(f"{self.workflow.get_output_dir()}/ro-crate-metadata-{name}.json", 'w') as output_file :
             json.dump(self.dico, output_file, indent=2)
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diff --git a/tests/test_cli.py b/tests/test_cli.py
index 04db2ce966d32132ac378841734805890bc444a4..076721cecca10563ff6b3698c182db0c12ac49e5 100644
--- a/tests/test_cli.py
+++ b/tests/test_cli.py
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ from bioflow_insight_cli.main import cli
 
 
 class TestCall(unittest.TestCase):
-
     def test_cli_works(self):
         cli("./wf_test/main.nf", render_graphs=True)
         cli("./wf_test/main.nf", render_graphs=False)
@@ -18,3 +17,12 @@ class TestCall(unittest.TestCase):
             cli("./wf_test/main.nf", render_graphs=False, output_dir=str(my_results))
             self.assertTrue(my_results.exists(), "Results should be there, output_dir not taken into account")
 
+    def test_with_illegal_path_char_in_name(self):
+        with TemporaryDirectory() as my_temp_dir:
+            my_results = pathlib.Path(my_temp_dir) / "my_results"
+            cli(
+                "./wf_test/main.nf",
+                render_graphs=False,
+                output_dir=str(my_results),
+                name="https://github.com/blabla/toto:qsd!qsd%#sqdqsd"
+            )