diff --git a/.github/workflows/transifex.yml b/.github/workflows/transifex.yml
index 68d68d28a..e601c4c3d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/transifex.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/transifex.yml
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
-name: Sync translations on repository and transifex.com
+name: Synchronise translations
 
 on:
   schedule:
-  - cron: "0 0 * * SUN"
+  # 22:38 GMT, every Sunday. Chosen to be a random time.
+  - cron: "38 22 * * SUN"
   workflow_dispatch:
 
 permissions:
@@ -15,22 +16,25 @@ jobs:
 
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v3
-      with:
-        ref: 5.x
     - name: Set up Python
       uses: actions/setup-python@v4
       with:
-        python-version: 3.9  # https://github.com/transifex/transifex-client/pull/330
+        python-version: 3
+    - name: Install transifex client
+      run: |
+        mkdir -p /tmp/tx_cli && cd $_
+        curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/transifex/cli/master/install.sh | bash
+      shell: bash
     - name: Install dependencies
-      run: pip install -U babel jinja2 transifex-client
-    - name: Install Sphinx
-      run: pip install .
+      run: pip install --upgrade babel jinja2
     - name: Extract translations from source code
       run: python utils/babel_runner.py extract
     - name: Push translations to transifex.com
-      run: cd sphinx/locale && tx push -s --no-interactive --parallel
+      run: |
+        cd sphinx/locale 
+        /tmp/tx_cli/tx push --source --use-git-timestamps --workers 10
       env:
-        TX_TOKEN: "${{ secrets.TX_TOKEN }}"
+        TX_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.TX_TOKEN }}
 
   pull:
     permissions:
@@ -41,28 +45,31 @@ jobs:
 
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v3
-      with:
-        ref: 5.x
     - name: Set up Python
       uses: actions/setup-python@v4
       with:
-        python-version: 3.9  # https://github.com/transifex/transifex-client/pull/330
+        python-version: 3
+    - name: Install transifex client
+      run: |
+        mkdir -p /tmp/tx_cli && cd $_
+        curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/transifex/cli/master/install.sh | bash
+      shell: bash
     - name: Install dependencies
-      run: pip install -U babel jinja2 transifex-client
-    - name: Install Sphinx
-      run: pip install .
+      run: pip install --upgrade babel jinja2
     - name: Extract translations from source code
       run: python utils/babel_runner.py extract
-    - name: Pull translations to transifex.com
-      run: cd sphinx/locale && tx pull -a -f --no-interactive --parallel
+    - name: Pull translations from transifex.com
+      run: |
+        cd sphinx/locale 
+        /tmp/tx_cli/tx pull --translations --all --force --use-git-timestamps --workers 10
       env:
-        TX_TOKEN: "${{ secrets.TX_TOKEN }}"
+        TX_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.TX_TOKEN }}
     - name: Compile message catalogs
       run: python utils/babel_runner.py compile
     - name: Create Pull Request
       uses: peter-evans/create-pull-request@v4
       with:
-        commit-message: "Update message catalogs"
+        commit-message: "[internationalisation] Update translations"
         branch: bot/pull-translations
-        title: Update message catalogs
-        labels: i18n
+        title: [bot]: Update message catalogues
+        labels: "internals:internationalisation"
diff --git a/sphinx/locale/.tx/config b/sphinx/locale/.tx/config
index 598089e9f..11f13fb83 100644
--- a/sphinx/locale/.tx/config
+++ b/sphinx/locale/.tx/config
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 [main]
 host = https://www.transifex.com
 
-[sphinx-1.sphinx-pot]
+[o:sphinx-doc:p:sphinx-1:r:sphinx-pot]
 file_filter = <lang>/LC_MESSAGES/sphinx.po
 source_file = sphinx.pot
 source_lang = en
diff --git a/utils/babel_runner.py b/utils/babel_runner.py
index c9d583b1e..5e62efe86 100644
--- a/utils/babel_runner.py
+++ b/utils/babel_runner.py
@@ -31,8 +31,6 @@ from babel.messages.pofile import read_po, write_po
 from babel.util import pathmatch
 from jinja2.ext import babel_extract as extract_jinja2
 
-import sphinx
-
 ROOT = os.path.realpath(os.path.join(os.path.abspath(__file__), "..", ".."))
 TEX_DELIMITERS = {
     'variable_start_string': '<%=',
@@ -75,8 +73,16 @@ KEYWORDS = {**DEFAULT_KEYWORDS, '_': None, '__': None}
 def run_extract():
     """Message extraction function."""
     log = _get_logger()
+
+    with open('sphinx/__init__.py', encoding='utf-8') as f:
+        for line in f.read().splitlines():
+            if line.startswith('__version__ = '):
+                # remove prefix; strip whitespace; remove quotation marks
+                sphinx_version = line[14:].strip()[1:-1]
+                break
+
     input_path = 'sphinx'
-    catalogue = Catalog(project='Sphinx', version=sphinx.__version__, charset='utf-8')
+    catalogue = Catalog(project='Sphinx', version=sphinx_version, charset='utf-8')
 
     base = os.path.abspath(input_path)
     for root, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(base):