“SSL certificate verify failed” using pip to install packages

Question

I am trying to install the Scrapy package (among others) for python using pip. I have tried doing the installation using python 3 and python 2, I have installed/upgraded the

Answer 1

If you're using python3, you can try this too:

python3 -m pip install --upgrade Scrapy --trusted-host pypi.org --trusted-host files.pythonhosted.org