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I'm getting the following error while using request package in Python.

'[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:1123)

I'm trying to access a link using the following code:

content = requests.get(link, verify=True, headers={"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 12871.102.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/81.0.4044.141 Safari/537.36"})

I searched for some solutions and found a few that talked about Install Certificate.command, but I can't find the file in my Python directory. I'm using Python 3.8. Any suggestion on how to get this resolved?

asked Oct 1, 2020 at 16:08

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I had to provide the certificate to prevent this error from occuring.

cert = requests.certs.where()
 page = requests.get(link, 
 verify=cert, 
 headers={"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 12871.102.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/81.0.4044.141 Safari/537.36"})

This worked for me

answered Oct 4, 2020 at 21:09
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