SSL error : routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed

Question

I have a large number of file download links in a txt file. I am trying to write a python script to download all the files at once, but I end up wi

Answer 1

Experienced this myself when using requests:

This is extremely insecure; use only as a last resort! (See rdlowrey's comment.)

requests.get('https://github.com', verify=True)

Making that verify=False did the trick for me.