Requests python not fetching data

is there a reason why the requests isn't getting any data? I tried doing it on my VM, and it works normally but when i tested it in my server, it doesn't work at all. I've made sure that the requests library is installed in my environment I and also made sure that it's up-to-date with its version. here is the code that i use.

import requests

exist=[]
url = []
cli = ["nike", "duolingo", "duolingoindo"]
for i in cli:
    r = requests.get("https://www.instagram.com/"+i+"/")
    try:
        if r.apparent_encoding == 'Windows-1252':
            exist.append(i)
            print('Exist')
            url.append("https://www.instagram.com/"+i+"/")
        else:
            print("Not Exist")
    except:
        print('Not Exist')

When I ran this code instead of getting exists, it kept saying that it doesn't exist. I've checked that the account exists. How do I fix this problem? Thanks

The way I found to make sure the Instagram username exists or not is by setting the sessionid cookie on HTTP requests. Adding the cookie ensures that the HTTP request will use your Instagram account login session information. Use the BeautifulSoup Selector to be able to validate whether the Instagram username exists or not using the innerHTML of the title element.

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

exist=[]
url = []
cli = ["nike", "duolingo", "duolingoindo"]
for i in cli:
    r = requests.get("https://www.instagram.com/"+i+"/", cookies={"sessionid":"your-session-id"})
    soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text, 'html.parser')
    title = soup.find('title').text
    if i in title:
        exist.append(i)
        print('Exist')
        url.append("https://www.instagram.com/"+i+"/")
    else:
        print("Not Exist")

Without BeautifulSoup

import requests

exist=[]
url = []
cli = ["nike", "duolingo", "duolingoindo"]
for i in cli:
    r = requests.get("https://www.instagram.com/"+i+"/", cookies={"sessionid":"your-session-id"})
    if r.apparent_encoding == 'Windows-1252':
        exist.append(i)
        print('Exist')
        url.append("https://www.instagram.com/"+i+"/")
    else:
        print("Not Exist")

How to get session id:

1. Log in to your Instagram account via browser.
2. After successful login, perform element inspection and open one of the requests on the Network tab.
3. The sessionid value can be seen in the cookie in the Request Headers.

Try with this the print(exist) and print(url) statements are moved outside the loop to show the final lists of existing usernames and URLs.

import requests

exist = []
url = []
cli = ["nike", "duolingo", "duolingoindo"]

for i in cli:
    try:
        r = requests.get("https://www.instagram.com/" + i + "/")
        if r.apparent_encoding == 'Windows-1252':
            exist.append(i)
            print('Exist')
            url.append("https://www.instagram.com/" + i + "/")
        else:
            print("Not Exist")
    except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:
        print('Error:', e)

print(exist)
print(url)