Welcome to the Treehouse Community

Want to collaborate on code errors? Have bugs you need feedback on? Looking for an extra set of eyes on your latest project? Get support with fellow developers, designers, and programmers of all backgrounds and skill levels here with the Treehouse Community! While you're at it, check out some resources Treehouse students have shared here.

Looking to learn something new?

Treehouse offers a seven day free trial for new students. Get access to thousands of hours of content and join thousands of Treehouse students and alumni in the community today.

Start your free trial

Python Scraping Data From the Web A World Full of Spiders Everyone Loves Charlotte

I'm getting this error 'SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERFIY_FAILED '

I'm getting an 'SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERFIY_FAILED' error when I run my code. I have included my code and the full error message. Thanks! This is my code:

from urllib.request import urlopen
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

import re


def internal_links(linkURL):
    html = urlopen('https://treehouse-projects.github.io/horse-land/{}'.format(linkURL))
    soup = BeautifulSoup(html.read(), 'html.parser')

    return soup.find('a', href=re.compile('(.html)$'))


if __name__ == '__main__':
    urls = internal_links('index.html')

    while len(urls) > 0:
        page = urls.attrs['href']

        print(page)
        print('/n==============================/n')
        urls = internal_links(page)

And this is the error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Library/Frameworks/Python3.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 1317, in do_open encode_chunked=req.has_header('Transfer-encoding')) File "/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Library/Frameworks/Python3.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/http/client.py", line 1229, in request self._send_request(method, url, body, headers, encode_chunked) File "/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Library/Frameworks/Python3.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/http/client.py", line 1275, in _send_request self.endheaders(body, encode_chunked=encode_chunked) File "/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Library/Frameworks/Python3.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/http/client.py", line 1224, in endheaders self._send_output(message_body, encode_chunked=encode_chunked) File "/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Library/Frameworks/Python3.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/http/client.py", line 1016, in _send_output self.send(msg) File "/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Library/Frameworks/Python3.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/http/client.py", line 956, in send self.connect() File "/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Library/Frameworks/Python3.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/http/client.py", line 1392, in connect server_hostname=server_hostname) File "/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Library/Frameworks/Python3.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/ssl.py", line 412, in wrap_socket session=session File "/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Library/Frameworks/Python3.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/ssl.py", line 853, in _create self.do_handshake() File "/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Library/Frameworks/Python3.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/ssl.py", line 1117, in do_handshake self._sslobj.do_handshake() ssl.SSLCertVerificationError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:1056)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/mohamedahmed/Documents/Coding/Learning/Treehouse/Python/web_scraping/soup_follow_scraper.py", line 15, in <module> urls = internal_links('indexl.html') File "/Users/mohamedahmed/Documents/Coding/Learning/Treehouse/Python/web_scraping/soup_follow_scraper.py", line 8, in internal_links html = urlopen('https://treehouse-projects.github.io/horse-land/{}'.format(linkURL)) File "/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Library/Frameworks/Python3.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 222, in urlopen return opener.open(url, data, timeout) File "/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Library/Frameworks/Python3.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 525, in open response = self._open(req, data) File "/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Library/Frameworks/Python3.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 543, in _open '_open', req) File "/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Library/Frameworks/Python3.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 503, in _call_chain result = func(*args) File "/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Library/Frameworks/Python3.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 1360, in https_open context=self._context, check_hostname=self._check_hostname) File "/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Library/Frameworks/Python3.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/urllib/request.py", line 1319, in do_open raise URLError(err) urllib.error.URLError: <urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:1056)>

Process finished with exit code 1

1 Answer

Hi ishakahmed,

I’m posting a link that should be able to help you solve this problem.

https://timonweb.com/python/fixing-certificate_verify_failed-error-when-trying-requests-html-out-on-mac/

I found that link in the following thread (in case you want to check it out).

https://teamtreehouse.com/community/solved-any-ideas-on-why-im-getting-this-error-and-failure-to-compile

Thank you very much :)