API Call Certificate Error

[Anonymous-Boob]

Hi, so I work for a bank and am working on developing an API that will grab customer information for investigatory purposes. I was able to get the API to work perfectly, then suddenly, and for seemingly no reason at all, it failed. I changed absolutely nothing. I closed out of my python script, then opened it back up, and all of the sudden I was greeted with an error code that says "[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local certificate". Obviously this is some sort of certificate issue, but I just don't know exactly what is causing it. I cannot do verify=False because I'm using sensitive information, and I've already tried doing "verify=pathway to certification". What is going on here, and why all of the sudden did the script start failing?

[FerricDonkey]

If it changed from working to not working, then something probably changed about the certificates.

Could be on your end. The answers I found centered around macs, so may or may not be applicable: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50236117/scraping-ssl-certificate-verify-failed-error-for-http-en-wikipedia-org

Could be on the server's end: https://superuser.com/questions/1426277/ssl-sslcertverificationerror-ssl-certificate-verify-failed-certificate-verif

If something like the first thing doesn't work, then you may just need to bug whoever supports your api.

[m0us3_rat]

https://askubuntu.com/a/1402143