SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED with Python3

Question

I apologize if this is a silly question, but I have been trying to teach myself how to use BeautifulSoup so that I can create a few projects.

I was following this link as a tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GzVNi0oTxQ

After following the exact same code as him, this is the error that I get:

Traceback (most recent call last):   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 1240, in do_open     h.request(req.get_method(), req.selector, req.data, headers)   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/http/client.py", line 1083, in request     self._send_request(method, url, body, headers)   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/http/client.py", line 1128, in _send_request     self.endheaders(body)   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/http/client.py", line 1079, in endheaders self._send_output(message_body)   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/http/client.py", line 911, in _send_output     self.send(msg)   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/http/client.py", line 854, in send     self.connect()   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/http/client.py", line 1237, in connect server_hostname=server_hostname)   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/ssl.py", line 376, in wrap_socket _context=self)   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/ssl.py", line 747, in __init__ self.do_handshake()   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/ssl.py", line 983, in do_handshake     self._sslobj.do_handshake()   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/ssl.py", line 628, in do_handshake     self._sslobj.do_handshake() ssl.SSLError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:645) 

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):   File "WorldCup.py", line 3, in <module>     x = urllib.request.urlopen('https://www.google.com')   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 162, in urlopen     return opener.open(url, data, timeout)   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 465, in open     response = self._open(req, data)   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 483, in _open '_open', req)   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 443, in _call_chain     result = func(*args)   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 1283, in https_open     context=self._context, check_hostname=self._check_hostname)   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 1242, in do_open raise URLError(err) urllib.error.URLError: <urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED]     certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:645)> 

Can someone help me figure out how to fix this?

Answer 1

In my case, I used the ssl module to "workaround" the certification like so:

import ssl  ssl._create_default_https_context = ssl._create_unverified_context 

Then to read your link content, you can use:

urllib.request.urlopen(urllink)