SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED

[vivaelnino9]

Hi!

I have a private app set up with shopify and I'm trying to make a Django app that uses the Shopify Python API however I can't seem to get passed step 6 in the Getting Started instructions!

shop_url = "https://%s:%s@SHOP_NAME.myshopify.com/admin" % (API_KEY, PASSWORD)
shopify.ShopifyResource.set_site(shop_url)
shop = shopify.Shop.current()

Above is all I have put in, obviously with my shop name and api credentials filled in, however when it gets to that last line I get an SSL error:

pyactiveresource.connection.Error: <urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:749)>

I have a decent understanding of what the error is but I don't understand why I'm getting it when I know for a fact I'm using the right credentials and following the instructions properly.

Anyone have an ideas?

[johnsliao]

I've also seen this issue. Does anyone know how to resolve?

For anyone who still has the issue, I was using Python 3.6.3 which caused the error. Using Python 2.7.x, which was also installed on my machine didn't produce the error.

For reference:
yahoo-finance/yahoo-finance#116

[clintonb]

I have the same issue on macOS with Python 3.6.0. This solution—detailed at https://stackoverflow.com/a/42098127/592820—resolved the problem for me:

Run /Applications/Python\ 3.6/Install\ Certificates.command from a terminal.

[jamiemtdwyer]

If you're having issues with Python and SSL, you can either follow the steps above provided by @clintonb (thanks!) or install the certifi package.

[KevinMind]

@clintonb You da bomb! I also had no problems with 2.7 but, when switched to 3.6 your fix worked.

[raminpapo]

import ssl
ssl._create_default_https_context = ssl._create_unverified_context
import shopify

[robjuffermans]

First:
pip install certifi

Then use code like this to patch the urlopen function.

import ssl
import certifi
from pyactiveresource.connection import Connection
from shopify import Session, ShopifyResource

sslcontext = ssl.create_default_context(cafile=certifi.where())

def urlopen_patch(self, request):
    return urlopen(request, timeout=self.timeout, context=sslcontext)


Connection._urlopen = urlopen_patch
session = Session(shop_url, api_version, password)
ShopifyResource.activate_session(session)

[b34nb0]

Was having this same issue running python 3.9 on a conda virtual environment. Installing the certifi package didn't do it for me (since I had it already installed), I was able however to solve it with this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/77491061/20258560