SSL Certificate error while installing Spacy

Question

I am facing the below error while installing Spacy.

requests.exceptions.SSLError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='raw.githubusercontent.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /explosion/spacy-models/master/compatibility.json (Caused by SSLError(SSLCertVerificationError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:1129)')))

Command i'm running : python -m spacy download en_core_web_md

Answer 1

I have fixed using this set of commands:

pip install pip-system-certs
python -m spacy download it_core_news_sm

Ref: https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/discussions/5649