diff --git a/scripts/get b/scripts/get
index bc13039e2..4daf504da 100755
--- a/scripts/get
+++ b/scripts/get
@@ -78,16 +78,31 @@ verifySupported() {
 # checkDesiredVersion checks if the desired version is available.
 checkDesiredVersion() {
   # Use the GitHub releases webpage for the project to find the desired version for this project.
-  local release_url="https://github.com/helm/helm/releases/${DESIRED_VERSION:-latest}"
+  local latest_release_url="https://github.com/helm/helm/releases/latest"
+  local release_url
+  if [ "x$DESIRED_VERSION" == "x" ]; then
+    if type "curl" > /dev/null; then
+      release_url=$(curl -Ls -o /dev/null -w %{url_effective} $latest_release_url)
+    elif type "wget" > /dev/null; then
+      release_url=$(wget $latest_release_url --server-response -O /dev/null 2>&1 | awk '/^  Location: /{DEST=$2} END{ print DEST}')
+    fi
+  else
+    release_url="https://github.com/helm/helm/releases/${DESIRED_VERSION}"
+  fi
+
+  local status_code
   if type "curl" > /dev/null; then
-    TAG=$(curl -SsL $release_url | awk '/\/tag\//' | grep -v no-underline | grep "<a href=\"/helm/helm/releases" | head -n 1 | cut -d '"' -f 2 | awk '{n=split($NF,a,"/");print a[n]}' | awk 'a !~ $0{print}; {a=$0}')
+    status_code=$(curl --write-out %{http_code} --silent --output /dev/null $release_url)
   elif type "wget" > /dev/null; then
-    TAG=$(wget -q -O - $release_url | awk '/\/tag\//' | grep -v no-underline | grep "<a href=\"/helm/helm/releases" | head -n 1 | cut -d '"' -f 2 | awk '{n=split($NF,a,"/");print a[n]}' | awk 'a !~ $0{print}; {a=$0}')
+    status_code=$(wget --spider -S $release_url -O /dev/null 2>&1 | grep "HTTP/" | awk '{print $2}')
   fi
-  if [ "x$TAG" == "x" ]; then
+  
+  if [[ "$status_code" -ne 200 ]] ; then
     echo "Cannot determine ${DESIRED_VERSION} tag."
     exit 1
   fi
+  
+  TAG=$(echo $release_url | grep -oE "[^/]+$" )
 }
 
 # checkHelmInstalledVersion checks which version of helm is installed and