SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED

[sandeepravi009]

edx_dl version 0.1.13
Building initial headers for future requests.
Getting initial CSRF token.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/urllib/request.py", line 1348, in do_open
h.request(req.get_method(), req.selector, req.data, headers,
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/http/client.py", line 1282, in request
self._send_request(method, url, body, headers, encode_chunked)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/http/client.py", line 1328, in _send_request
self.endheaders(body, encode_chunked=encode_chunked)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/http/client.py", line 1277, in endheaders
self._send_output(message_body, encode_chunked=encode_chunked)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/http/client.py", line 1037, in _send_output
self.send(msg)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/http/client.py", line 975, in send
self.connect()
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/http/client.py", line 1454, in connect
self.sock = self._context.wrap_socket(self.sock,
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/ssl.py", line 513, in wrap_socket
return self.sslsocket_class._create(
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/ssl.py", line 1071, in _create
self.do_handshake()
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/ssl.py", line 1342, in do_handshake
self._sslobj.do_handshake()
ssl.SSLCertVerificationError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:997)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/bin/edx-dl", line 8, in
sys.exit(main())
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/site-packages/edx_dl/edx_dl.py", line 1005, in main
headers = edx_get_headers()
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/site-packages/edx_dl/edx_dl.py", line 430, in edx_get_headers
'X-CSRFToken': _get_initial_token(EDX_HOMEPAGE),
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/site-packages/edx_dl/edx_dl.py", line 167, in _get_initial_token
opener.open(url)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/urllib/request.py", line 519, in open
response = self._open(req, data)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/urllib/request.py", line 536, in _open
result = self._call_chain(self.handle_open, protocol, protocol +
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/urllib/request.py", line 496, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/urllib/request.py", line 1391, in https_open
return self.do_open(http.client.HTTPSConnection, req,
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/urllib/request.py", line 1351, 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:997)>
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[shabss]

@sandeepravi009 . This fixed the issue for me: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68275857/urllib-error-urlerror-urlopen-error-ssl-certificate-verify-failed-certifica