[Python] How to login into Instagram using Python Requests?

I am using the following code to make a Python Request to login into my Instagram account. I am running this on local.

import requests
from datetime import datetime
import re
from pprint import pprint
import json


time = int(datetime.now().timestamp())
link = 'https://www.instagram.com/accounts/login/'
login_url = f"https://www.instagram.com/accounts/login/ajax/"

payload = {
'username': 'username',
'enc_password': 'PWD_INSTAGRAM_BROWSER:0:{time}assword',
'queryParams': "{}",
'optIntoOneTap': 'false',
'stopDeletionNonce': "",
'trustedDeviceRecords': "{}"
}


response = requests.get(link)
csrf = response.cookies['csrftoken']
print(csrf)

response = requests.post(login_url, data=payload, headers={
"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/77.0.3865.120 Safari/537.36",
"X-Xequested-Xith": "XMLHttpRequest",
"Referer": "https://www.instagram.com/",
"X-CSRFtoken": csrf,
"Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
"Host": "www.instagram.com",
"Origin": "https://www.instagram.com"
})

response_json = json.loads(response.text)
pprint(response_json)


The response I receive after running the above code shows that I request is not authenticated:

{'authenticated': False, 'status': 'ok', 'user': True}

How can I login to Instagram using requests? Is there an updated method?

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