SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:1108) Discord/python

Question

I'm using Pycharm and python 3.8 and latest version of discord. I tried to run this script but got this error. Can anyone help?

import discord

TOKEN = 'xxxxx'

client = discord.Client()

@client.event
async def on_message(message):
    # we do not want the bot to reply to itself
    if message.author == client.user:
        return

    if message.content.startswith('!hello'):
        msg = 'Hello {0.author.mention}'.format(message)
        await client.send_message(message.channel, msg)

@client.event
async def on_ready():
    print('Logged in as')
    print(client.user.name)
    print(client.user.id)
    print('------')

client.run(TOKEN)

------ error below -------

/Users/mellie/PycharmProjects/Dominations/venv/bin/python /Users/mellie/PycharmProjects/Dominations/Domi.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/mellie/PycharmProjects/Dominations/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/aiohttp/connector.py", line 936, in _wrap_create_connection return await self._loop.create_connection(*args, **kwargs) # type: ignore # noqa File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/asyncio/base_events.py", line 1042, in create_connection transport, protocol = await self._create_connection_transport( File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/asyncio/base_events.py", line 1072, in _create_connection_transport await waiter File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/asyncio/sslproto.py", line 529, in data_received ssldata, appdata = self._sslpipe.feed_ssldata(data) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/asyncio/sslproto.py", line 189, in feed_ssldata self._sslobj.do_handshake() File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/ssl.py", line 944, in do_handshake self._sslobj.do_handshake() ssl.SSLCertVerificationError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:1108)

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/mellie/PycharmProjects/Dominations/Domi.py", line 24, in client.run(TOKEN) File "/Users/mellie/PycharmProjects/Dominations/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/discord/client.py", line 640, in run return future.result() File "/Users/mellie/PycharmProjects/Dominations/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/discord/client.py", line 621, in runner await self.start(*args, **kwargs) File "/Users/mellie/PycharmProjects/Dominations/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/discord/client.py", line 584, in start await self.login(*args, bot=bot) File "/Users/mellie/PycharmProjects/Dominations/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/discord/client.py", line 442, in login await self.http.static_login(token.strip(), bot=bot) File "/Users/mellie/PycharmProjects/Dominations/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/discord/http.py", line 256, in static_login data = await self.request(Route('GET', '/users/@me')) File "/Users/mellie/PycharmProjects/Dominations/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/discord/http.py", line 160, in request async with self.session.request(method, url, **kwargs) as r: File "/Users/mellie/PycharmProjects/Dominations/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/aiohttp/client.py", line 1012, in __aenter self._resp = await self._coro File "/Users/mellie/PycharmProjects/Dominations/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/aiohttp/client.py", line 480, in _request conn = await self._connector.connect( File "/Users/mellie/PycharmProjects/Dominations/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/aiohttp/connector.py", line 523, in connect proto = await self._create_connection(req, traces, timeout) File "/Users/mellie/PycharmProjects/Dominations/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/aiohttp/connector.py", line 858, in _create_connection _, proto = await self._create_direct_connection( File "/Users/mellie/PycharmProjects/Dominations/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/aiohttp/connector.py", line 1004, in _create_direct_connection raise last_exc File "/Users/mellie/PycharmProjects/Dominations/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/aiohttp/connector.py", line 980, in _create_direct_connection transp, proto = await self._wrap_create_connection( File "/Users/mellie/PycharmProjects/Dominations/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/aiohttp/connector.py", line 938, in _wrap_create_connection raise ClientConnectorCertificateError( aiohttp.client_exceptions.ClientConnectorCertificateError: Cannot connect to host discordapp.com:443 ssl:True [SSLCertVerificationError: (1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:1108)')]

Process finished with exit code 1

Answer 1

This github issue here. Says:

Basically navigate to your Applications/Python 3.6/ folder and double click the Install Certificates.command.

Try running this same program on 3.6 and run the install certificates command. This is likely to solve your issue

Answer 2

I got the same error, but I fixed it by going to my Applications folder in my mac, going to python 3.9, and clicking on the install certificate file. It opened the terminal then it downloaded the certificate files.