diff --git a/git-host-info.js b/git-host-info.js
index 360d7b0..d491934 100644
--- a/git-host-info.js
+++ b/git-host-info.js
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ gitHosts.gitlab = Object.assign({}, defaults, {
   tarballtemplate: ({ domain, user, project, committish }) => `https://${domain}/${user}/${project}/repository/archive.tar.gz?ref=${maybeEncode(committish) || 'master'}`,
   extract: (url) => {
     const path = url.pathname.slice(1)
-    if (path.includes('/-/')) {
+    if (path.includes('/-/') || path.includes('/archive.tar.gz')) {
       return
     }
 
diff --git a/test/gitlab.js b/test/gitlab.js
index 205f94a..feb613f 100644
--- a/test/gitlab.js
+++ b/test/gitlab.js
@@ -6,7 +6,10 @@ const invalid = [
   // gitlab urls can contain a /-/ segment, make sure we ignore those
   'https://gitlab.com/foo/-/something',
   // missing project
-  'https://gitlab.com/foo'
+  'https://gitlab.com/foo',
+  // tarball, this should not parse so that it can be used for pacote's remote fetcher
+  'https://gitlab.com/foo/bar/repository/archive.tar.gz',
+  'https://gitlab.com/foo/bar/repository/archive.tar.gz?ref=49b393e2ded775f2df36ef2ffcb61b0359c194c9'
 ]
 
 // assigning the constructor here is hacky, but the only way to make assertions that compare