diff --git a/src/main/java/com/rarchives/ripme/ripper/rippers/InstagramRipper.java b/src/main/java/com/rarchives/ripme/ripper/rippers/InstagramRipper.java
index 37e27214..d0f8dd9a 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/rarchives/ripme/ripper/rippers/InstagramRipper.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/rarchives/ripme/ripper/rippers/InstagramRipper.java
@@ -39,9 +39,6 @@ public class InstagramRipper extends AbstractJSONRipper {
     private String userID;
     private String rhx_gis = null;
     private String csrftoken;
-    // Run into a weird issue with Jsoup cutting some json pages in half, this is a work around
-    // see https://github.com/RipMeApp/ripme/issues/601
-    private String workAroundJsonString;
 
 
 
@@ -192,6 +189,9 @@ public class InstagramRipper extends AbstractJSONRipper {
         Document p = resp.parse();
         // Get the query hash so we can download the next page
         qHash = getQHash(p);
+        if (qHash == null) {
+            throw new IOException("Unable to extract qhash from page");
+        }
         return getJSONFromPage(p);
     }
 
@@ -398,7 +398,6 @@ public class InstagramRipper extends AbstractJSONRipper {
     }
 
     private boolean pageHasImages(JSONObject json) {
-        LOGGER.info(json);
         int numberOfImages = json.getJSONObject("data").getJSONObject("user")
                 .getJSONObject("edge_owner_to_timeline_media").getJSONArray("edges").length();
         if (numberOfImages == 0) {
@@ -422,23 +421,36 @@ public class InstagramRipper extends AbstractJSONRipper {
 
             }
             in.close();
-            workAroundJsonString = sb.toString();
             return new JSONObject(sb.toString());
 
         } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
-            LOGGER.info("Unable to get query_hash, " + url + " is a malformed URL");
+            LOGGER.info("Unable to get page, " + url + " is a malformed URL");
             return null;
         } catch (IOException e) {
-            LOGGER.info("Unable to get query_hash");
+            LOGGER.info("Unable to get page");
             LOGGER.info(e.getMessage());
             return null;
         }
     }
 
+    private String getQhashUrl(Document doc) {
+        for(Element el : doc.select("link[rel=preload]")) {
+            if (el.attr("href").contains("ProfilePageContainer")) {
+                return el.attr("href");
+            }
+        }
+        for(Element el : doc.select("link[rel=preload]")) {
+            if (el.attr("href").contains("metro")) {
+                return el.attr("href");
+            }
+        }
+        return null;
+    }
+
     private String getQHash(Document doc) {
-        String jsFileURL = "https://www.instagram.com" + doc.select("link[rel=preload]").attr("href");
+        String jsFileURL = "https://www.instagram.com" + getQhashUrl(doc);
         StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
-        Document jsPage;
+        LOGGER.info(jsFileURL);
         try {
             // We can't use Jsoup here because it won't download a non-html file larger than a MB
             // even if you set maxBodySize to 0
@@ -454,7 +466,7 @@ public class InstagramRipper extends AbstractJSONRipper {
             LOGGER.info("Unable to get query_hash, " + jsFileURL + " is a malformed URL");
             return null;
         } catch (IOException e) {
-            LOGGER.info("Unable to get query_hash");
+            LOGGER.info("Unable to get query_hash from " + jsFileURL);
             LOGGER.info(e.getMessage());
             return null;
         }
@@ -468,6 +480,12 @@ public class InstagramRipper extends AbstractJSONRipper {
                 m = jsP.matcher(sb.toString());
                 if (m.find()) {
                     return m.group(1);
+                } else {
+                    jsP = Pattern.compile(",u=.([a-zA-Z0-9]+).");
+                    m = jsP.matcher(sb.toString());
+                    if (m.find()) {
+                        return m.group(1);
+                    }
                 }
             }
 
@@ -477,6 +495,7 @@ public class InstagramRipper extends AbstractJSONRipper {
             if (m.find()) {
                 return m.group(1);
             }
+
         }
         LOGGER.error("Could not find query_hash on " + jsFileURL);
         return null;