From 803440ac501d929367ffb88d0bc6acec17316652 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: twitter-79 <42436876+twitter-79@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2021 22:35:58 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix Login Error (#1192)

taking csrf token from login page as it is empty using the old url

Fixes #1150.
---
 instaloader/instaloadercontext.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/instaloader/instaloadercontext.py b/instaloader/instaloadercontext.py
index 8234e96..66b245c 100644
--- a/instaloader/instaloadercontext.py
+++ b/instaloader/instaloadercontext.py
@@ -210,8 +210,8 @@ 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
-        session.get('https://www.instagram.com/web/__mid/')
-        csrf_token = session.cookies.get_dict()['csrftoken']
+        csrf_json = self.get_json('accounts/login/', {}, session=session)
+        csrf_token = csrf_json['config']['csrf_token']
         session.headers.update({'X-CSRFToken': csrf_token})
         # Not using self.get_json() here, because we need to access csrftoken cookie
         self.do_sleep()