diff --git a/aider/versioncheck.py b/aider/versioncheck.py
index 96963581c..a09a2b536 100644
--- a/aider/versioncheck.py
+++ b/aider/versioncheck.py
@@ -1,11 +1,10 @@
 import requests
-from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
 import pkg_resources
 
 def check_version():
-    response = requests.get('https://pypi.org/project/aider/')
-    soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, 'html.parser')
-    latest_version = soup.find('h1', {'class': 'package-header__name'}).text.split()[-1]
+    response = requests.get('https://pypi.org/pypi/aider/json')
+    data = response.json()
+    latest_version = data['info']['version']
     current_version = pkg_resources.get_distribution('aider').version
 
     if pkg_resources.parse_version(latest_version) > pkg_resources.parse_version(current_version):