Inexplicable 403 Error w/ Python Get Request - python-requests

Question

I'm trying to do a simple get request but no matter how I'm configuring the headers I keep getting a 403 response. The page loads fine in a browser. No login is required and there are no tracked cookies either. The link I'm trying to get a response from is below, followed by my simple code.
https://i7.sportsdatabase.com/nba/query.json?sdql=50+%3C+Kobe+Bryant%3Apoints+and+site%3Daway&sport=nba
url = 'https://i7.sportsdatabase.com/nba/query.json?sdql=50+%3C+Kobe+Bryant%3Apoints+and+site%3Daway&sport=nba'
headers = {
'Host': 'i7.sportsdatabase.com',
'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/92.0.4515.131 Safari/537.36',
}
r = requests.get(url, headers)
I'm not seeing any other headers that need adding to the request. The full, in browser, request headers are below:
Host: i7.sportsdatabase.com
Connection: keep-alive
Cache-Control: max-age=0
sec-ch-ua: "Chromium";v="92", " Not A;Brand";v="99", "Google Chrome";v="92"
sec-ch-ua-mobile: ?0
DNT: 1
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/92.0.4515.131 Safari/537.36
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9
Sec-Fetch-Site: none
Sec-Fetch-Mode: navigate
Sec-Fetch-User: ?1
Sec-Fetch-Dest: document
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Accept-Language: en,en-US;q=0.9,it;q=0.8,es;q=0.7
If-None-Match: "be833f0fb26eb81487fc09e05c85ac8c8646fc7b"

Answer 1

Try:
Make your URL a string
Add the accepts
This works:
url = 'https://i7.sportsdatabase.com/nba/query.json?sdql=50+%3C+Kobe+Bryant%3Apoints+and+site%3Daway&sport=nba'
headers = {
'Host': 'i7.sportsdatabase.com',
'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/92.0.4515.131 Safari/537.36',
'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9',
'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate, br',
}
r = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

Answer 2

Try using .Session()
import requests
s = requests.Session()
headers = {
'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0; Nexus 5 Build/MRA58N) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/92.0.4515.159 Mobile Safari/537.36',
}
s.get('https://i7.sportsdatabase.com/nba/trends', headers=headers)
url = 'https://i7.sportsdatabase.com/nba/query.json?sdql=50+%3C+Kobe+Bryant%3Apoints+and+site%3Daway&sport=nba'
r = s.get(url, headers=headers)
print(r)
Output:
print(r)
<Response [200]>