diff --git a/.github/workflows/pythonpackage.yml b/.github/workflows/pythonpackage.yml
index 59996fe4..dcc881d1 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pythonpackage.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pythonpackage.yml
@@ -32,7 +32,8 @@ jobs:
           python -m pip install --upgrade pip
           python -m pip install --upgrade 'setuptools>=40' 'tox>=3.14'
       - name: Test nichtparasoup
-        run: python -m tox -r -e py3-coverageXML
+        # since the version got retired, we dont need online tests
+        run: python -m tox -r -e py3-coverageXML -- -m "not online"
       - name: "Test examples::nichtparasoup-imagecrawler-plugin"
         run: python -m tox -r -e py3 -c examples/nichtparasoup-imagecrawler-plugin/
       - name: Upload coverage to Codecov
diff --git a/.github/workflows/pythonpublish.yml b/.github/workflows/pythonpublish.yml
index 7a0ab37b..dbdfdbec 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pythonpublish.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pythonpublish.yml
@@ -26,7 +26,8 @@ jobs:
           python -m pip install --upgrade pip
           python -m pip install --upgrade 'setuptools>=40' 'tox>=3.14'
       - name: Test nichtparasoup
-        run: python -m tox -r -e py3
+        # since the version got retired, we dont need online tests
+        run: python -m tox -r -e py3 -- -m "not online"
       - name: "Test examples::nichtparasoup-imagecrawler-plugin"
         run: python -m tox -r -e py3 -c examples/nichtparasoup-imagecrawler-plugin/
   publish:
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index bb9f3f53..ddc79928 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ commands =
     {envpython} --version
     {envpython} -m flake8
     {envpython} -m mypy
-    {envpython} -m coverage run -m pytest -v
+    {envpython} -m coverage run -m pytest -v {posargs}
     coverageReport: {envpython} -m coverage report -m
     coverageXML: {envpython} -m coverage xml -i