API connection with python

Hello,
Not sure where to post this. I am learning some API access with Python and thought it would be fun to get my character data. I did a simple request:

req = request.get('http//www.pathofexile.com/character-window/get-characters?accountName='+MyAccountName)

I am getting an access denied error. Not sure if there is certain params/header I need to pass into it? if I print this link out in the terminal it does take me right to the JSON file on the web browser.

Also I have done it this way and still comes back with access denied error:

params = {'accountName': 'Kiznilian'}
requestURL = self.settings['characterURL'] #this the url https://api.pathofexile.com/character-window/get-characters
req = requests.get(requestURL, params=params)

Response back is : Forbidden, access denied.

Means your id expired, you need to be logged in to get to some routes

In case you haven't seen this thread, it contains useful information.
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1212138/page/4

You might also want to inspect the code of Procurement and Acquisition in order to get some ideas.

Thanks, figured it out.
You said you need to login and I was wondering how does it know which browser's cookies to use.

just put the heads in the request of the browser you are logged into.
headers = {'user-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0'}