diff --git a/src/InstagramScraper/Instagram.php b/src/InstagramScraper/Instagram.php
index 7a490b9..cacad86 100644
--- a/src/InstagramScraper/Instagram.php
+++ b/src/InstagramScraper/Instagram.php
@@ -2210,7 +2210,7 @@ class Instagram
                 throw new InstagramException('Response code is ' . $response->code . ': ' . static::httpCodeToString($response->code) . '.' .
                                              'Something went wrong. Please report issue.', $response->code, static::getErrorBody($response->body));
             }
-            preg_match('/\\\\"csrf_token\\\\":\\\\"(.*?)\\\\"/', $response->body, $match);
+            preg_match('/csrftoken=(.*?);/', $response->headers['Set-Cookie'][0], $match);
             $csrfToken = isset($match[1]) ? $match[1] : '';
             $cookies = $this->parseCookies($response->headers);
 
@@ -2219,6 +2219,8 @@ class Instagram
             $cookieString = 'ig_cb=1';
             if ($csrfToken !== '') {
                 $cookieString .= '; csrftoken=' . $csrfToken;
+            } else {
+              throw new InstagramException('csrftoken is empty. Most probably Instagram changed the place of it or the namespace. Without it, login is failing.');
             }
             if ($mid !== '') {
                 $cookieString .= '; mid=' . $mid;