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 by [Bernardas Alisauskas](https://scrapfly.io/blog/author/bernardas) Dec 19, 2022 1 min read [\#python](https://scrapfly.io/blog/tag/python) [\#requests](https://scrapfly.io/blog/tag/requests) 

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`SSLError` error is seen when using Python [requests](https://pypi.org/project/requests/) module to scrape pages with untrusted SSL certificates.

python```python
import requests
response = requests.get("https://example.com/")
# raises: 
# SSLError: HTTPConnectionPool(host='example.com', port=80)...

# we can disable certificate verficiation (note: dangerous as it disables e2e encryption)
response = requests.get("https://example.com/", verify=False)
# or specify certficate file explicitly (.rem)
cert_location = "certificates/example-com-certificate.pem"
response = requests.get("https://example.com/", verify=cert_location)
```



The `SSLError` exception is rarely encountered in web scraping but the easiest way to fix it is to simply disable certification verification (verify=False parameter) if no sensitive data is being exchanged.

Note if manual fix is required the SSL certificates `requests` is using can be found using the `requests.certs.where()` method:

python```python
import requests
print(requests.certs.where())
'/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt'  # example on Linux
```



This value can also be overridden using `REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE` environment variable:

shell```shell
$ export REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE="/etc/ssl/certs/my-certificates.pem" 
$ python -c "import requests;print(requests.certs.where())"
/ets/ssl/certs/my-certificates.pem
```



Finally, `requests` is using [certifi](https://pypi.org/project/certifi/) to handle all SLL certificate-related operations - try updating it: `pip install certifi --upgrade`



 

    



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