diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 8ca09c07b..481d0e2c7 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ Tools to help run CI jobs for TripleO. Includes things like:
 * Heat templates to help deploy and maintain test environment nodes
   using an undercloud.
 * Helper script(s) to generate CI status reports. (tox -ecireport -- -f)
+* Helper `getthelogs` script to download important job logs locally.
+  Then you may want to inspect the logs for known errors and contribute
+  discovered search patterns as the
+  `elastic-recheck queries <https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack-infra/elastic-recheck/tree/queries>`_.
 
 
 OpenStack Infrastructure is deploying multiple jobs with different scenarios.
diff --git a/scripts/getthelogs b/scripts/getthelogs
index e35bf4a74..d17907451 100755
--- a/scripts/getthelogs
+++ b/scripts/getthelogs
@@ -1,54 +1,72 @@
 #!/bin/bash
+set -eu -o pipefail
 
-# Helper script for downloading tripleo-ci logs, it then prompts the users for
-# file they want to download, unzips them into a tmp directory and changes into
-# the tmp directory, while in the tmp directory run "getthelogs" with no params
-# to download any log files you hadn't previously downloaded
-# Run it like this
-# getthelogs http://logs.openstack.org/68/237568/5/check-tripleo/gate-tripleo-ci-f22-ha/dd8f61d/
-
-set -eu
-
-BASEURL=$1
-TDIR=${BASEURL//\//}
-
-# We do not clean up this directory, so data doesn't need to be downloaded a second time
-# if the script is rerun again with the same url
-TDIR=~/tmp/ci-${TDIR//\//-}
-
-mkdir -p $TDIR
-cd $TDIR
-
-echo $BASEURL > BASEURL
-
-function _getfile(){
-    URL=$1
-    BASENAME=$(basename $1)
-
-    if [[ $BASENAME =~ .*(tar|console).* && ! -e $BASENAME ]] ; then
-        read -p "Want $BASENAME? " X
-        if [ "$X" = "y" ] ; then
-            curl -O $URL || curl -O ${URL}.gz
-            if [[ $BASENAME =~ .*(\.tar).* ]] ; then
-                mkdir ${BASENAME}_
-                tar -xf $BASENAME -C ${BASENAME}_
-            fi
-        fi
-    fi
+function usage(){
+  echo "Helper script for downloading tripleo-ci jobs logs"
+  echo
+  echo "Example:"
+  echo "getthelogs http://logs.openstack.org/00/123456/7/check/gate-tripleo-ci-foo/d3adbeef"
+  echo
+  echo "Downloads the logs and starts a shell from the logs root directory"
 }
 
-FILES="$BASEURL/console.html"
-for FILE in $(curl $BASEURL/logs/ 2> /dev/null | grep href | sed -e 's/.*href="\([^"]*\)".*/\1/g' ) ; do
-    FILES="$FILES $BASEURL/logs/$FILE"
+function finish(){
+  rc=${rc:-$?}
+  trap - EXIT
+  cd $TDIR/../
+  echo "Download job exited ${rc}"
+  PS1="JOBLOGS ]\$  " bash --noprofile --norc
+}
+
+function get_dirs(){
+  local drop="\b(etc|ara|ara_oooq|docs|build|stackviz|sudoers.d|lib|config-data|extra)\b"
+  local directories=""
+  directories=$(curl -s "$1" 2> /dev/null | grep -E "\[DIR" | grep -vE "${drop}" | sed -e "s,.*href=\"\([^\"]*\)\".*,${1}\1,g")
+  if [ -n "$directories" ]; then
+    for d in $directories; do
+      directories="$directories $(get_dirs $d/)"
+    done
+    echo $directories
+  else
+    echo ""
+  fi
+  return 0
+}
+
+[[ "${1:--}" =~ ^\s+?- ]] && (usage; exit 1)
+type -p wget 2>&1 >/dev/null || ( echo "Please install a wget tool!"; exit 127 )
+trap finish EXIT SIGINT SIGTERM
+
+WORKERS=6
+BASEURL=${1%/}
+SC=$(dirname $BASEURL | grep -o \/ | wc -w)
+if [[ ! $(basename $BASEURL) == 'logs' && SC -le 7 ]]; then
+  console=$BASEURL/console.html
+  BASEURL=${BASEURL}/logs
+else
+  console=''
+fi
+TDIR=${BASEURL##*http://}
+TDIR=/tmp/${TDIR}
+mkdir -p $TDIR
+cd /tmp
+
+echo "Target dir for download: $TDIR"
+echo Will download logs from the following URLs:
+list_to_get="$console $(get_dirs $BASEURL/)"
+for d in $list_to_get; do
+  echo $d
 done
 
-function getthelogs(){
-    for FILE in $FILES ; do
-        _getfile $FILE
-    done
-}
-getthelogs
+rm -f wget-jobs.txt
+for d in $list_to_get; do
+  args="\"-nv -nc --no-use-server-timestamps \
+  --accept-regex='\.txt\.gz$|console\.htm[l]?$|messages$' \
+  --reject='index.html*' \
+  --recursive -l 10 --domains logs.openstack.org --no-parent \
+  -erobots=off --wait 0.25 ${d}\""
+  echo "${args}" >> wget-jobs.txt
+done
 
-export FILES
-export -f getthelogs _getfile
-PS1="JOBLOGS ]\$  " bash
+cat wget-jobs.txt | sed -n '{p;p}' | shuf > wget-jobs-shuf.txt
+cat wget-jobs-shuf.txt  | xargs -r -n1 -P ${WORKERS} -I{} sh -c "wget {}"