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I am trying to change the user profile picture on instagram programmatically via HTTP requests. I'm unsure as to why the profile picture has not updated. I have used many examples on stackoverflow (Upload Image using POST form data in Python-requests) along with the official docs for requests (http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/quickstart/#post-a-multipart-encoded-file). Here is the current method I am working on:

def update_profile_pic(self):

        get_change_pic = self.session.get('https://www.instagram.com/' + self.username, headers=self.headers)



        self.session.headers.update({

            'user-agent' : self.user_agent,

            'x-csrftoken' : get_change_pic.cookies['csrftoken'],

            'content-type' : 'multipart/form-data; boundary=----WebKitFormBoundaryUIboB46mvoIt1m9R',

            'referer' : 'https://www.instagram.com/' + self.username + '/',

            'origin' : 'https://www.instagram.com'

        })



        files = {'profile_pic': ('profilepic.jpg', 

        open('profilepic.jpg', 'rb').read(), 

        'image/jpeg', 

        {

            'Content-Disposition' : 'form-data;',

        }

        )}



        change_pic = self.session.post('https://www.instagram.com/accounts/web_change_profile_picture/', files=files)



        print(change_pic.text)

Here is the response that I get from my program:

{"changed_profile": true, "id": 9129479436, "has_profile_pic": false, "profile_pic_url": "https://instagram.fmkc1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/vp/c012aa3473e225c235b274cb8a51c620/5C716EDF/t51.2885-19/38905493_2193354514245732_6791661364604567552_n.jpg", "profile_pic_url_hd": "https://instagram.fmkc1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/vp/c012aa3473e225c235b274cb8a51c620/5C716EDF/t51.2885-19/38905493_2193354514245732_6791661364604567552_n.jpg", "profile_pic_to_post_upsell_eligible": true, "status": "ok"}

Here is the response I get when manually uploading a pic, via instagram.com:

{"changed_profile": true, "id": 9129479436, "has_profile_pic": true, "profile_pic_url": "https://instagram.fbed1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/vp/827163eecb3fb3ed2cd7969528fd92da/5C6A10A3/t51.2885-19/44785389_226951028028925_6866362025681879040_n.jpg", "profile_pic_url_hd": "https://instagram.fbed1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/vp/827163eecb3fb3ed2cd7969528fd92da/5C6A10A3/t51.2885-19/44785389_226951028028925_6866362025681879040_n.jpg", "status": "ok"}

Response headers:

access-control-allow-credentials: true

access-control-allow-origin: https://www.instagram.com

cache-control: private, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate

content-encoding: gzip

content-language: en

content-length: 217

content-security-policy: report-uri https://www.instagram.com/security/csp_report/; default-src 'self' https://www.instagram.com; img-src https: data: blob:; font-src https: data:; media-src 'self' blob: https://www.instagram.com https://*.cdninstagram.com https://*.fbcdn.net; manifest-src 'self' https://www.instagram.com; script-src 'self' https://instagram.com https://www.instagram.com https://*.www.instagram.com https://*.cdninstagram.com wss://www.instagram.com https://*.facebook.com https://*.fbcdn.net https://*.facebook.net 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval' blob:; style-src 'self' https://*.www.instagram.com https://www.instagram.com 'unsafe-inline'; connect-src 'self' https://instagram.com https://www.instagram.com https://*.www.instagram.com https://graph.instagram.com https://*.graph.instagram.com https://*.cdninstagram.com https://api.instagram.com wss://www.instagram.com wss://edge-chat.instagram.com https://*.facebook.com https://*.fbcdn.net https://*.facebook.net chrome-extension://boadgeojelhgndaghljhdicfkmllpafd; worker-src 'self' https://www.instagram.com; frame-src 'self' https://instagram.com https://www.instagram.com https://staticxx.facebook.com https://www.facebook.com https://web.facebook.com https://connect.facebook.net https://m.facebook.com; object-src 'none'; upgrade-insecure-requests

content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8

date: Sun, 18 Nov 2018 03:22:59 GMT

expires: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT

pragma: no-cache

set-cookie: rur=ATN; Domain=.instagram.com; HttpOnly; Path=/; Secure

set-cookie: ds_user_id=9129479436; Domain=.instagram.com; expires=Sat, 16-Feb-2019 03:22:59 GMT; Max-Age=7776000; Path=/; Secure

set-cookie: urlgen="{}:1gODfn:oseVSKSqi_G7dsrw-sGyYnB4UB8"; Domain=.instagram.com; HttpOnly; Path=/; Secure

set-cookie: csrftoken=CQM7TvwBhKbigdcj2a7UVZNaAXB0xGpu; Domain=.instagram.com; expires=Sun, 17-Nov-2019 03:22:59 GMT; Max-Age=31449600; Path=/; Secure

status: 200

strict-transport-security: max-age=60

vary: Accept-Language, Cookie, Accept-Encoding

x-content-type-options: nosniff

x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN

x-xss-protection: 0

Request headers:

:authority: www.instagram.com

:method: POST

:path: /accounts/web_change_profile_picture/

:scheme: https

accept: */*

accept-encoding: gzip, deflate, br

accept-language: en-US,en;q=0.9

content-length: 8638

content-type: multipart/form-data; boundary=----WebKitFormBoundaryf3YOtJCAfKhjZCVf

cookie: mid=W_DaPQAEAAGEpui-cKxkbCScmijn; mcd=3; csrftoken=CQM7TvwBhKbigdcj2a7UVZNaAXB0xGpu; ds_user_id=9129479436; sessionid=IGSC24a182fcba699695123d686dee80a45615c1368c599d73392433f7a465714a70%3A8Bc4cb2j59ZJJFGKCLXEa4v3uUJBz63g%3A%7B%22_auth_user_id%22%3A9129479436%2C%22_auth_user_backend%22%3A%22accounts.backends.CaseInsensitiveModelBackend%22%2C%22_auth_user_hash%22%3A%22%22%2C%22_platform%22%3A4%2C%22_token_ver%22%3A2%2C%22_token%22%3A%229129479436%3AUgJfZH2OoUcdCLyhaMthiwJgIXATamnB%3A2ed3ce04127d527af4a4187d2c9944612604de61d70a93abbc3f5c6ed98cb6be%22%2C%22last_refreshed%22%3A1542511180.8014497757%7D; rur=ATN; urlgen="{}:1gODfZ:3h97w_2Cpg3f0VTSrZDw5pyC7fY"

origin: https://www.instagram.com

referer: https://www.instagram.com/heeyioep/

user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.102 Safari/537.36

x-csrftoken: CQM7TvwBhKbigdcj2a7UVZNaAXB0xGpu

x-instagram-ajax: 710a1be42428

x-requested-with: XMLHttpRequest

Form-data (parsed):

profile-pic: (binary)

Form-data (source):

------WebKitFormBoundaryf3YOtJCAfKhjZCVf

Content-Disposition: form-data; name="profile_pic"; filename="profilepic.jpg"

Content-Type: image/jpeg





------WebKitFormBoundaryf3YOtJCAfKhjZCVf--

I believe that I have all of the proper headers set. I'm getting a response when sending the request, but it is not changing the profile picture. Any help is greatly appreciated!