diff --git a/instaloader/instaloadercontext.py b/instaloader/instaloadercontext.py
index 026cb8a..5efd08a 100644
--- a/instaloader/instaloadercontext.py
+++ b/instaloader/instaloadercontext.py
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ import json
 import os
 import pickle
 import random
-import re
 import shutil
 import sys
 import textwrap
@@ -260,18 +259,23 @@ class InstaloaderContext:
         # Override default timeout behavior.
         # Need to silence mypy bug for this. See: https://github.com/python/mypy/issues/2427
         session.request = partial(session.request, timeout=self.request_timeout) # type: ignore
-        csrf_json = self.get_json('accounts/login/', {}, session=session)
-        csrf_token = csrf_json['config']['csrf_token']
+
+        # Make a request to Instagram's root URL, which will set the session's csrftoken cookie
+        # Not using self.get_json() here, because we need to access the cookie
+        session.get('https://www.instagram.com/')
+        # Add session's csrftoken cookie to session headers
+        csrf_token = session.cookies.get_dict()['csrftoken']
         session.headers.update({'X-CSRFToken': csrf_token})
-        # Not using self.get_json() here, because we need to access csrftoken cookie
+
         self.do_sleep()
         # Workaround credits to pgrimaud.
         # See: https://github.com/pgrimaud/instagram-user-feed/commit/96ad4cf54d1ad331b337f325c73e664999a6d066
         enc_password = '#PWD_INSTAGRAM_BROWSER:0:{}:{}'.format(int(datetime.now().timestamp()), passwd)
-        login = session.post('https://www.instagram.com/accounts/login/ajax/',
+        login = session.post('https://www.instagram.com/api/v1/web/accounts/login/ajax/',
                              data={'enc_password': enc_password, 'username': user}, allow_redirects=True)
         try:
             resp_json = login.json()
+
         except json.decoder.JSONDecodeError as err:
             raise ConnectionException(
                 "Login error: JSON decode fail, {} - {}.".format(login.status_code, login.reason)
@@ -407,16 +411,6 @@ class InstaloaderContext:
                 raise TooManyRequestsException("429 Too Many Requests")
             if resp.status_code != 200:
                 raise ConnectionException("HTTP error code {}.".format(resp.status_code))
-            is_html_query = not is_graphql_query and not "__a" in params and host == "www.instagram.com"
-            if is_html_query:
-                # Extract JSON from HTML response
-                match = re.search('(?<={"raw":").*?(?<!\\\\)(?=")', resp.text)
-                if match is None:
-                    raise QueryReturnedNotFoundException("Could not find JSON data in html response.")
-                # Unescape escaped JSON string
-                unescaped_string = match.group(0).encode("utf-8").decode("unicode_escape")
-                resp_json = json.loads(unescaped_string)
-                return resp_json
             else:
                 resp_json = resp.json()
             if 'status' in resp_json and resp_json['status'] != "ok":