certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate

Question

I am trying to get data from the web using python. I imported urllib.request package for it but while executing, I get error:

certificate verify failed: unab         


        

Answer 1

I recently had this issue while connecting to MongoDB Atlas. I updated to the latest certifi python package and it works now.

(python 3.8, upgraded to certifi 2020.4.5.1, previously certifi version 2019.11.28)