diff --git a/vaultwarden-updater b/vaultwarden-updater
index 4977764..de13140 100644
--- a/vaultwarden-updater
+++ b/vaultwarden-updater
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ function update_vaultwarden {
 local_release=$(/usr/local/bin/vaultwarden --version | awk --field-separator ' ' '{print $2}')
 
 # retrieve the latest release
-latest_release=$(/usr/bin/curl --silent "https://api.github.com/repos/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/releases/latest" | grep -Po '"tag_name": "\K.*?(?=")')
+latest_release=$(git ls-remote https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden.git HEAD | awk '{print substr($1, 1, length($1) - 32)}')
 
 # compare these two versions
 if [ ${latest_release} == ${local_release} ]