Login after prolonged inactivity - what am I doing wrong?

[giogina]

Hi!
So, the first login works fine for me, and so do logins while (I guess) the session hasn't expired.
However, after taking a couple hours break, I run into errors. It seems to execute the cl.login(user, password) without errors, but then when i request my timeline feed, it's like "user has logged out", but it's not even a LoginRequired error. Am I doing something stupid? Am I supposed to do the relogin after being inactive? Or did I get kicked from the instagram server?
Thanks for any help :)

(Related but less important question: If I check 'recent logins' the instagram website, I can see my browser login as 'active', but the bot login just as 'logged in n minutes ago', not active. Is this something that needs fixing?)

My login code is like so:

def login(user, password):
    print("Logging in...")
    if not exists("/tmp/dump.json"):  # first-time login
        cl.set_device(device={...})
        cl.set_uuids(uuids={...})
        cl.login(user, password)
        my_id = cl.user_id
        fh.append_ids("cache/" + user + "_id", str(my_id))
    else:
        settings = cl.load_settings(Path("/tmp/dump.json"))
        print("Settings loaded successfully")
        cl.login(user, password)
    cl.dump_settings(Path("/tmp/dump.json"))
    time.sleep(random.randint(10, 20) / 10)
    try:
        cl.user_info(str(cl.user_id))
    except LoginRequired:
        print(" *** re-login ***")
        print(cl.username, cl.password)
        cl.relogin()
        print("Re-login executed.")
        cl.dump_settings(Path("/tmp/dump.json"))
        time.sleep(random.random()*3+0.4)
    time.sleep(random.random()+1.6)
    ig('scroll_feed')  # This calls cl.get_timeline_feed()

and this is the error traceback:

Logging in...
Settings loaded successfully
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/media/giogina/Data/Coding/InstaPythonBot/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/instagrapi/mixins/private.py", line 302, in _send_private_request
    response.raise_for_status()
  File "/media/giogina/Data/Coding/InstaPythonBot/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/requests/models.py", line 1021, in raise_for_status
    raise HTTPError(http_error_msg, response=self)
requests.exceptions.HTTPError: 403 Client Error: Forbidden for url: https://i.instagram.com/api/v1/feed/timeline/

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/media/giogina/Data/Coding/InstaPythonBot/main.py", line 676, in <module>
    start_session()
  File "/media/giogina/Data/Coding/InstaPythonBot/main.py", line 568, in start_session
    login(idle=False)  # only runs if logged_in == False
  File "/media/giogina/Data/Coding/InstaPythonBot/main.py", line 113, in login
    ig('scroll_feed')
  File "/media/giogina/Data/Coding/InstaPythonBot/main.py", line 240, in ig
    cl.get_timeline_feed()
  File "/media/giogina/Data/Coding/InstaPythonBot/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/instagrapi/mixins/auth.py", line 215, in get_timeline_feed
    return self.private_request(
  File "/media/giogina/Data/Coding/InstaPythonBot/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/instagrapi/mixins/private.py", line 451, in private_request
    raise e
  File "/media/giogina/Data/Coding/InstaPythonBot/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/instagrapi/mixins/private.py", line 438, in private_request
    self._send_private_request(endpoint, **kwargs)
  File "/media/giogina/Data/Coding/InstaPythonBot/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/instagrapi/mixins/private.py", line 330, in _send_private_request
    raise ClientForbiddenError(e, response=e.response, **last_json)
instagrapi.exceptions.ClientForbiddenError: {"message":"user_has_logged_out","logout_reason":9,"status":"fail"}

Process finished with exit code 1

[giogina]

Finally figured it out! As usual, the answer is: because I'm an idiot, that's why :p My code finally ran through without errors, happened upon a cl.logout() call, slept for a couple hours, and tried the login; but since cl.username was still assigned, the client thought I must still be logged in, resulting in the cl.login(username, password) doing nothing. Then when requesting the feed, the server went wtf you're logged out, what do you want. After removing the logout(), everything runs smoothly. It remains to be seen if it still works once the session expires.
Leaving the post up for now in case it helps another lost soul, but feel free to remove if it's clogging up the discussions.