Major Bug [2026 Feb] - 400 Client Error: Bad Request for url: https://i.instagram.com/api/v1/accounts/login/

[blackaquaindia]

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Program Files\Python313\Lib\site-packages\instagrapi\mixins\private.py", line 359, in _send_private_request
response.raise_for_status()
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
File "C:\Program Files\Python313\Lib\site-packages\requests\models.py", line 1026, in raise_for_status
raise HTTPError(http_error_msg, response=self)
requests.exceptions.HTTPError: 400 Client Error: Bad Request for url: https://i.instagram.com/api/v1/accounts/login/

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 9, in
cl.login(USERNAME, PASSWORD)
~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Program Files\Python313\Lib\site-packages\instagrapi\mixins\auth.py", line 445, in login
logged = self.private_request("accounts/login/", data, login=True)
File "C:\Program Files\Python313\Lib\site-packages\instagrapi\mixins\private.py", line 550, in private_request
raise e
File "C:\Program Files\Python313\Lib\site-packages\instagrapi\mixins\private.py", line 535, in private_request
self._send_private_request(endpoint, **kwargs)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Program Files\Python313\Lib\site-packages\instagrapi\mixins\private.py", line 424, in _send_private_request
raise BadPassword(**last_json)
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