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Python Scraping Data From the Web Introducing Data Scraping Beautiful Soup

Pratham Mishra
Pratham Mishra
14,191 Points
Posted by Pratham Mishra
Pratham Mishra
14,191 Points

I am getting an error while running the python script:

I am running this python script on my local machine(Mac), on VS Code

Exception has occurred: URLError <urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:1108)> File "/Users/the-g3nius/Desktop/Python Intermediate Treehouse/web-scraping/scraper.py", line 4, in <module> html = urlopen('https://treehouse-projects.github.io/horse-land/index.html')

Tom Morgan
Tom Morgan
8,208 Points
Tom Morgan
Tom Morgan
8,208 Points

I'm getting the exact same error, anyone else know how to resolve this?