diff --git a/scripts/fix-canvas-deps.ts b/scripts/fix-canvas-deps.ts
index 27d1952ed6..8e37f82250 100644
--- a/scripts/fix-canvas-deps.ts
+++ b/scripts/fix-canvas-deps.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  */
 
 import child_process from "child_process";
-import { ensureDir } from "fs-extra";
+import fsExtra from "fs-extra";
 import fetch from "node-fetch";
 import { platform } from "process";
 import { SemVer } from "semver";
@@ -12,12 +12,14 @@ import stream from "stream";
 import { promisify } from "util";
 import { extract } from "tar";
 
-function canvasPrebuiltUrlBuilder(canvasVersion: SemVer, nodeVersion: string) {
+const { ensureDir, readJson } = fsExtra;
+
+function canvasPrebuiltUrlBuilder(canvasVersion: string, nodeVersion: string) {
   const compiler = platform === "linux"
     ? "glibc"
     : "unknown";
 
-  return `https://github.com/Automattic/node-canvas/releases/download/v${canvasVersion.format()}/canvas-v${canvasVersion.format()}-node-v${nodeVersion}-${platform}-${compiler}-x64.tar.gz`;
+  return `https://github.com/Automattic/node-canvas/releases/download/v${canvasVersion}/canvas-v${canvasVersion}-node-v${nodeVersion}-${platform}-${compiler}-x64.tar.gz`;
 }
 
 const exec = promisify(child_process.exec);
@@ -26,11 +28,8 @@ const pipeline = promisify(stream.pipeline);
 // This is done so that we can skip the scripts for only this package
 await exec("npm install canvas@2 --no-save --no-package-lock --ignore-scripts");
 
-const { stdout } = await exec("npm list --depth=0 --json");
-const output = JSON.parse(stdout);
-
 const nodeModuleVersion = process.versions.modules;
-const canvasVersion = new SemVer(output.dependencies["canvas"].version);
+const canvasVersion = (await readJson("./node_modules/canvas/package.json")).version as string;
 const canvasPrebuildUrl = canvasPrebuiltUrlBuilder(canvasVersion, nodeModuleVersion);
 
 const canvasPrebuilt = await fetch(canvasPrebuildUrl);