diff --git a/bdfr/site_downloaders/download_factory.py b/bdfr/site_downloaders/download_factory.py
index 7035dc2..8eff2b8 100644
--- a/bdfr/site_downloaders/download_factory.py
+++ b/bdfr/site_downloaders/download_factory.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ from bdfr.site_downloaders.youtube import Youtube
 class DownloadFactory:
     @staticmethod
     def pull_lever(url: str) -> Type[BaseDownloader]:
-        sanitised_url = DownloadFactory._sanitise_url(url)
+        sanitised_url = DownloadFactory.sanitise_url(url)
         if re.match(r'(i\.)?imgur.*\.gifv$', sanitised_url):
             return Imgur
         elif re.match(r'.*/.*\.\w{3,4}(\?[\w;&=]*)?$', sanitised_url):
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ class DownloadFactory:
                 f'No downloader module exists for url {url}')
 
     @staticmethod
-    def _sanitise_url(url: str) -> str:
+    def sanitise_url(url: str) -> str:
         beginning_regex = re.compile(r'\s*(www\.?)?')
         split_url = urllib.parse.urlsplit(url)
         split_url = split_url.netloc + split_url.path
diff --git a/tests/site_downloaders/test_download_factory.py b/tests/site_downloaders/test_download_factory.py
index f89df8a..d5e84d8 100644
--- a/tests/site_downloaders/test_download_factory.py
+++ b/tests/site_downloaders/test_download_factory.py
@@ -70,5 +70,5 @@ def test_factory_lever_bad(test_url: str):
     ('https://i.imgur.com/BuzvZwb.gifv', 'i.imgur.com/BuzvZwb.gifv'),
 ))
 def test_sanitise_url(test_url: str, expected: str):
-    result = DownloadFactory._sanitise_url(test_url)
+    result = DownloadFactory.sanitise_url(test_url)
     assert result == expected