diff --git a/.github/workflows/develop.yml b/.github/workflows/develop.yml
index 0ae59da09a..4f9826391a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/develop.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/develop.yml
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ on:
 jobs:
     end-to-end:
         runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+        env: 
+          PR_NUMBER: ${{github.event.number}}
         container: vectorim/element-web-ci-e2etests-env:latest
         steps:
             - name: Checkout code
diff --git a/scripts/fetchdep.sh b/scripts/fetchdep.sh
index 0990af70ce..ec021236d9 100755
--- a/scripts/fetchdep.sh
+++ b/scripts/fetchdep.sh
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ defbranch="$3"
 
 rm -r "$defrepo" || true
 
+# A function that clones a branch of a repo based on the org, repo and branch
 clone() {
     org=$1
     repo=$2
@@ -21,45 +22,38 @@ clone() {
     fi
 }
 
-# Try the PR author's branch in case it exists on the deps as well.
-# First we check if GITHUB_HEAD_REF is defined,
-# Then we check if BUILDKITE_BRANCH is defined,
-# if they aren't we can assume this is a Netlify build
-if [ -n "$GITHUB_HEAD_REF" ]; then
-    head=$GITHUB_HEAD_REF
-elif [ -n "$BUILDKITE_BRANCH" ]; then
-	head=$BUILDKITE_BRANCH
-else
-    # Netlify doesn't give us info about the fork so we have to get it from GitHub API
-    apiEndpoint="https://api.github.com/repos/matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk/pulls/"
-    apiEndpoint+=$REVIEW_ID
-    head=$(curl $apiEndpoint | jq -r '.head.label')
-fi
+# A function that gets info about a PR from the GitHub API based on its number
+getPRInfo() {
+    number=$1
+    if [ -n "$number" ]; then
+        echo "Getting info about a PR with number $number"
 
-# If head is set, it will contain on Buildkite either:
-#   * "branch" when the author's branch and target branch are in the same repo
-#   * "fork:branch" when the author's branch is in their fork or if this is a Netlify build
-# We can split on `:` into an array to check.
-# For GitHub Actions we need to inspect GITHUB_REPOSITORY and GITHUB_ACTOR
-# to determine whether the branch is from a fork or not
-BRANCH_ARRAY=(${head//:/ })
-if [[ "${#BRANCH_ARRAY[@]}" == "1" ]]; then
+        apiEndpoint="https://api.github.com/repos/matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk/pulls/"
+        apiEndpoint+=$number
 
-    if [ -n "$GITHUB_HEAD_REF" ]; then
-        if [[ "$GITHUB_REPOSITORY" == "$deforg"* ]]; then
-            clone $deforg $defrepo $GITHUB_HEAD_REF
-        else
-            REPO_ARRAY=(${GITHUB_REPOSITORY//\// })
-            clone $REPO_ARRAY[0] $defrepo $GITHUB_HEAD_REF
-        fi
-    else
-        clone $deforg $defrepo $BUILDKITE_BRANCH
+        head=$(curl $apiEndpoint | jq -r '.head.label')
     fi
+}
 
-elif [[ "${#BRANCH_ARRAY[@]}" == "2" ]]; then
-    clone ${BRANCH_ARRAY[0]} $defrepo ${BRANCH_ARRAY[1]}
+# Some CIs don't give us enough info, so we just get the PR number and ask the
+# GH API for more info - "fork:branch". Some give us this directly.
+if [ -n "$BUILDKITE_BRANCH" ]; then
+    # BuildKite
+    head=$BUILDKITE_BRANCH
+elif [ -n "$PR_NUMBER" ]; then
+    # GitHub
+    getPRInfo $PR_NUMBER
+elif [ -n "$REVIEW_ID" ]; then
+    # Netlify
+    getPRInfo $REVIEW_ID
 fi
 
+# $head will always be in the format "fork:branch", so we split it by ":" into
+# an array. The first element will then be the fork and the second the branch.
+# Based on that we clone
+BRANCH_ARRAY=(${head//:/ })
+clone ${BRANCH_ARRAY[0]} $defrepo ${BRANCH_ARRAY[1]}
+
 # Try the target branch of the push or PR.
 if [ -n $GITHUB_BASE_REF ]; then
     clone $deforg $defrepo $GITHUB_BASE_REF