python-amazon-simple-product-api: SSL Error

Receiving this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 1318, in do_open
    encode_chunked=req.has_header('Transfer-encoding'))
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/http/client.py", line 1239, in request
    self._send_request(method, url, body, headers, encode_chunked)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/http/client.py", line 1285, in _send_request
    self.endheaders(body, encode_chunked=encode_chunked)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/http/client.py", line 1234, in endheaders
    self._send_output(message_body, encode_chunked=encode_chunked)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/http/client.py", line 1026, in _send_output
    self.send(msg)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/http/client.py", line 964, in send
    self.connect()
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/http/client.py", line 1400, in connect
    server_hostname=server_hostname)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/ssl.py", line 407, in wrap_socket
    _context=self, _session=session)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/ssl.py", line 814, in __init__
    self.do_handshake()
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/ssl.py", line 1068, in do_handshake
    self._sslobj.do_handshake()
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/ssl.py", line 689, in do_handshake
    self._sslobj.do_handshake()
ssl.SSLError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:777)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#15>", line 1, in <module>
    products = amazon.search_n(1, Keywords='kindle', SearchIndex='All')
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/amazon/api.py", line 288, in search_n
    return list(islice(items, n))
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/amazon/api.py", line 544, in __iter__
    for page in self.iterate_pages():
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/amazon/api.py", line 561, in iterate_pages
    yield self._query(ItemPage=self.current_page, **self.kwargs)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/amazon/api.py", line 573, in _query
    response = self.api.ItemSearch(ResponseGroup=ResponseGroup, **kwargs)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/bottlenose/api.py", line 274, in __call__
    {'api_url': api_url, 'cache_url': cache_url})
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/bottlenose/api.py", line 235, in _call_api
    return urllib2.urlopen(api_request, timeout=self.Timeout)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 223, in urlopen
    return opener.open(url, data, timeout)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 526, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 544, in _open
    '_open', req)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 504, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 1361, in https_open
    context=self._context, check_hostname=self._check_hostname)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 1320, in do_open
    raise URLError(err)
urllib.error.URLError: <urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:777)>

Any Idea how to resolve this?

About this issue

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  • State: closed
  • Created 6 years ago
  • Comments: 15 (1 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

Hi, This has nothing to do with this library.

Navigate to cd /Applications/Python\ 3.6/

Click on Install Certificates.command

This should solve it.

import urllib3
urllib3.disable_warnings(urllib3.exceptions.InsecureRequestWarning)

This worked for me

@adityaarakeri @eliezerp3 If you’re using venv: Delete the virtual environment. Navigate to directory and run:

rm -rf .venv

Then update global python3.6 certificates by running:

/Applications/Python\ 3.6/Install\ Certificates.command 

Create your new environment:

python3.6 -m venv .venv

Hope this helps!