diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/29680-fetch-file-file-name-too-long.yml b/changelogs/fragments/29680-fetch-file-file-name-too-long.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..9d7505d4c1b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/29680-fetch-file-file-name-too-long.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+bugfixes:
+- fetch_file - Ensure we only use the filename when calculating a tempfile, and do not incude the query string
+  (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/29680)
diff --git a/lib/ansible/module_utils/urls.py b/lib/ansible/module_utils/urls.py
index 3e0965af6d4..691ecc3879f 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/module_utils/urls.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/module_utils/urls.py
@@ -1989,7 +1989,8 @@ def fetch_file(module, url, data=None, headers=None, method=None,
     '''
     # download file
     bufsize = 65536
-    file_name, file_ext = os.path.splitext(str(url.rsplit('/', 1)[1]))
+    parts = urlparse(url)
+    file_name, file_ext = os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(parts.path))
     fetch_temp_file = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(dir=module.tmpdir, prefix=file_name, suffix=file_ext, delete=False)
     module.add_cleanup_file(fetch_temp_file.name)
     try:
diff --git a/test/units/module_utils/urls/test_fetch_file.py b/test/units/module_utils/urls/test_fetch_file.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d536ffaf3a5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/units/module_utils/urls/test_fetch_file.py
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# (c) 2018 Matt Martz <matt@sivel.net>
+# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
+
+from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
+__metaclass__ = type
+
+from ansible.module_utils.urls import fetch_file
+
+import pytest
+from units.compat.mock import MagicMock
+
+
+def test_fetch_file(mocker):
+    tempfile = mocker.patch('ansible.module_utils.urls.tempfile')
+    tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile.side_effect = RuntimeError('boom')
+
+    module = MagicMock()
+    module.tmpdir = '/tmp'
+
+    with pytest.raises(RuntimeError):
+        fetch_file(module, 'http://ansible.com/foo.tar.gz?foo=%s' % ('bar' * 100))
+
+    tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile.assert_called_once_with(dir='/tmp', prefix='foo.tar', suffix='.gz', delete=False)