“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

Pretty unique case here, but having Fiddler running (not even targeting the same process) gave me the same SSL errors. Running pip install with --verbose showed an error with Fiddler, closing Fiddler immediately fixed the issue.