Cloudscraper returns AttributeError: 'SSLContext' object has no attribute 'orig_wrap_socket'

Question

import cloudscraper
import requests

scraper = cloudscraper.create_scraper()  # returns a CloudScraper instance
# Or: scraper = cloudscraper.CloudScraper()  # CloudScraper inherits from requests.Session
print (scraper.get("https://www.youtube.com/").text )

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AttributeError                            Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-459-1f19dc044105> in <module>
      2 import requests
      3 
----> 4 scraper = cloudscraper.create_scraper()  # returns a CloudScraper instance
      5 # Or: scraper = cloudscraper.CloudScraper()  # CloudScraper inherits from requests.Session
      6 print (scraper.get("https://www.youtube.com/").text )

~/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cloudscraper/__init__.py in create_scraper(cls, sess, **kwargs)
    315         Convenience function for creating a ready-to-go CloudScraper object.
    316         
--> 317         scraper = cls(**kwargs)
    318 
    319         if sess:

~/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cloudscraper/__init__.py in __init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
    169                 server_hostname=self.server_hostname,
    170                 source_address=self.source_address,
--> 171                 ssl_context=self.ssl_context
    172             )
    173         )

~/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cloudscraper/__init__.py in __init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
     75             self.ssl_context = ssl.create_default_context(ssl.Purpose.SERVER_AUTH)
     76 
---> 77             self.ssl_context.orig_wrap_socket = self.ssl_context.wrap_socket
     78             self.ssl_context.wrap_socket = self.wrap_socket
     79 

AttributeError: 'SSLContext' object has no attribute 'orig_wrap_socket'

The code was run according to the documentation on https://pypi.org/project/cloudscraper/ and I cant find relevant supporting information on how to solve this error message.

Answer 1

My scripts is working well until the latest version 1.2.60 release 12 days ago. Maybe is the problem with the old library ssl.py in python3.6.

Here are my temporally solution:

• use the last version 1.2.58: pip3 install cloudscraper==1.2.58
• or using python 3.7+, tested working with python 3.7