diff --git a/playbooks/roles/minishift/tasks/install_minishift_bin.yml b/playbooks/roles/minishift/tasks/install_minishift_bin.yml
index 9fe1d36a..4d160ebd 100644
--- a/playbooks/roles/minishift/tasks/install_minishift_bin.yml
+++ b/playbooks/roles/minishift/tasks/install_minishift_bin.yml
@@ -2,28 +2,20 @@
 # Install minishift
 
 - name: Query for minishift compressed binary
-  uri:
-    url: "https://api.github.com/repos/minishift/minishift/releases/tags/{{minishift_version}}"
-    return_content: yes
-    body_format: json
-  register: release
+  shell: curl -s https://github.com/minishift/minishift/releases/{{ minishift_version }} | grep 'minishift-.*-linux.*' | head -1 | sed 's/.*<a href="\(.*\)" .*/https:\/\/github.com\1/' | cut -d'"' -f1
+  register: get_minishift_bin
 
-- name: filter for the particular release
-  set_fact:
-      linux_release: "{{ release.json.assets | selectattr('name', 'search', 'linux-amd64.tgz$') | map(attribute='browser_download_url') | list }}"
-
-- name: "Pull down and extract minishift binary to {{ ansible_env.HOME }}"
+- name: "Pull down and extract minishift binary to {{ minishift_dest_dir }}"
   unarchive:
-    src: "{{ item }}"
+    src: "{{ get_minishift_bin.stdout }}"
     dest: "{{ minishift_dest_dir }}"
     remote_src: yes
-    list_files: yes
-  with_items: "{{linux_release}}"
-  register: archive_contents
 
-- name: set minishift source dir
+- name: Set minishift_src_dir fact
   set_fact:
-      minishift_src_dir: "{{ archive_contents.results[0].files[0] }}"
+    minishift_src_dir: "{{ get_minishift_bin.stdout | basename | regex_search(regexp,'\\1') | join(' ') }}"
+  vars:
+    regexp: '(minishift.*amd64).tgz'
 
 - name: "Create a new {{ minishift_dest_dir }} if it doesn't exist"
   file: