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

Got this same error recently in a python app using requests on ubuntu 14.04LTS, that I thought had been running fine (maybe it was and some update occurred). Doing the steps below fixed it for me:

pip install --upgrade setuptools
pip install -U requests[security]

Here is a reference: https://stackoverflow.com/a/39580231/996117