How to fix 302 error after submitting an API request?

Question

Python

I use the necessary requests to connect to insta:

import requests

r = requests.get(
    url='https://i.instagram.com/api/v1/feed/reels_tray/',
    headers={
        'Host': 'i.instagram.com',
        'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0',
        'X-IG-App-ID': '936619743392459',
        'X-ASBD-ID': '437806',
        'X-IG-WWW-Claim': 'hmac.AR1mC3BljF1XvKUF2ZN29mo7M-gTCU0tJ8b4dDml6MZsT0FC',
        'Referer': 'https://www.instagram.com/',
        'Cookie':  'csrftoken: "wjWEYcw044iKoejKa7LjbyCjiBZ3lUOq"'
                   'ds_user_id: "1066075764"'
                   'ig_did: "D7ABA642-7272-4355-9946-10C0320EA158"'
                   'mid: "YSjKXgALAAEOXiNSnMLLwokm5YLm"'
                   'sessionid: "1066075764:x2veTN4WOKUT92:23"',
        'Accept': '*/*',
    },
    allow_redirects=False
)
print(r.status_code) # 302

Is there any way to get around this problem?

Answer 1

If you look at the location, you can see what throws out for authorization. Cookies don't get transferred that way at all.
Make your cookies a name-value dictionary and pass them into the request
cookies = {'name': 'value', 'name2': 'value2'}
r = requests.get(url, cookies=cookies)

Answer 2

Well, actually the HTTP 302 response code is not an error, it's a harmless redirect. The one that you disable with the allow_redirects=False parameter, although by default requests handles them just fine on its own. Do you have any special reasons for not allowing the library to do this?