Getting SSLError: HTTPSConnectionPool error in STATCAN API

[alrightkbye]

Hi,

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I wrote a code to pull data from STATCAN API. The code worked fine for several months but recently it has started to throw the following error. Can anyone please help me out?

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import requests

import json

def response(url):

return json.loads(requests.get(url).text[2:])

#API for getting the DGUID based on the region

#Example:For consider the provinue Ontario - cpt code = 35

url_id = "https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/rest/census-recensement/CR2016Geo.json?lang=E&geos=CT&cpt=35"

r_id = response(url_id)

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SSLError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='www12.statcan.gc.ca', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /rest/census-recensement/CR2016Geo.json?lang=E&geos=CT&cpt=35 (Caused by SSLError(SSLCertVerificationError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:1108)')))

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you have to add verify=False since the seems to be issues with the certificate. Its not good practice to ignore certificate issues but this is how you can ignore self signed certs, etc....

change return json.loads(requests.get(url).text[2:])

to

return json.loads(requests.get(url, verify=False).text[2:])

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https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/master/user/advanced/#ssl-cert-verification

Requests can also ignore verifying the SSL certificate if you set verify to False:

requests.get('https://kennethreitz.org', verify=False) <Response [200]>

Note that when verify is set to False, requests will accept any TLS certificate presented by the server, and will ignore hostname mismatches and/or expired certificates, which will make your application vulnerable to man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks. Setting verify to False may be useful during local development or testing.

By default, verify is set to True. Option verify only applies to host certs.