Tweepy SSLError regarding ssl certificate

Question

I am running a REST API (Search API) with Tweepy in Python. I worked the program at home and it\'s totally fine. But now I am working on this in different networks and I got

Answer 1

For anybody that might stumble on this like I did, I had a similar problem because my company was using a proxy, and the SSL check failed while trying to verify the proxy's certificate.

The solution was to export the proxy's root certificate as a .pem file. Then you can add this certificate to certifi's trust store by doing:

import certifi
cafile = certifi.where()
with open(r, 'rb') as infile:
    customca = infile.read()
with open(cafile, 'ab') as outfile:
    outfile.write(customca)

You'll have to replace with the path to the exported file. This should allow requests (and tweepy) to successfully validate the certificates.