python - 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 the error message.

SSLError: ("bad handshake: Error([('SSL routines', 'ssl3_get_server_certificate', 'certificate verify failed')],)",)

My code is like this.

auth = tweepy.AppAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret) api = tweepy.API(auth,wait_on_rate_limit=True, wait_on_rate_limit_notify=True)

I found this post Python Requests throwing up SSLError and set the following code (verify = false) may be a quick solution. Does anyone know how to do it or other ways in tweepy? Thank you.

Answer 1

In streaming.py, adding verify = False in line# 105 did the trick for me as shown below. Though it is not advisable to use this approach as it makes the connection unsafe. Haven't been able to come up with a workaround for this yet.

stream = Stream(auth, listener, verify = False)