The dreaded CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED with Python Bitbucket API

[Rob Lamb]

Hi all,

I'm trying to connect to our internal Bitbucket server via the Atlassian Python API, using a token:

from atlassian import Bitbucket

bb = Bitbucket(url='https://<ourURL>',token = '<myToken>')
data = bb.project_list()
for i in data:
    print(i)

When I run the above code I get the error "SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED".

I'm running on a Mac, using IDLE.  

I've tried adding a "verify=False" to the connection string, but then I get an error that the parameter "verify" isn't recognized.

I'm new to using APIs (and certificates) so I'm probably missing something basic here.  Any ideas?

Thanks!

[Rob Lamb · Accepted solution]

I was able to get this to work following these steps:

Specify the certificate store per:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40684543/how-to-make-python-use-ca-certificates-from-mac-os-truststore

This included:
1) Installed “certifi”
2) Added this to my .bash_profile:
CERT_PATH=$(python3.8 -m certifi)
export SSL_CERT_FILE=${CERT_PATH}
export REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE=${CERT_PATH}

3) Linked “ln -s” the cacert.pem file to the cert.pem file

Then I re-added the internal Certs for our repos to the cacert.pem file

[Ellite Hanry]

Yes, it is great that you can solve the issue, but if in the future you face the error issue, you can refer to the following guide:- https://cheapsslweb.com/blog/ssl-certificate-verify-failed-error-in-python/.

I hope it helps!

[Ellite Hanry]

The error occurs while running the code on a Mac and still getting the "SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED." It can occur when making HTTPS requests using the requests module in Python. I can refer to the following helpful guide: https://cheapsslweb.com/blog/ssl-certificate-verify-failed-error-in-python/. Maybe it will help to solve the error.

[Zaheer Kazi]

i tried downgrading the urllib3 to 1.24.1 and it worked for me

[Florian Bonniec]

Hi

Have you try  verify_ssl=False ?

Bitbucket(url='https://<ourURL>',token = '<myToken>', verify_ssl=False)

[Rob Lamb]

Hi Florian, 

This is much closer!  Now I get a string of 30 warnings:

"InsecureRequestWarning: Unverified HTTPS request is being made to host...Adding certificate verification is strongly advised."

These are followed by:

"requests.exceptions.TooManyRedirects: Exceeded 30 redirects.".

Is there a way to disable warnings?  

And how did you find the verify_ssl parameter?  Is there documentation somewhere that I missed?

Thanks so much for the help!

--Rob

[Florian Bonniec]

Hi

I found the param to use in the code of the library you are using.

https://github.com/atlassian-api/atlassian-python-api/blob/master/atlassian/rest_client.py#L45

Documentation is here also

https://pypi.org/project/atlassian-python-api/

[Rob Lamb]

Aha, thanks for that!  Unfortunately I don't see a way to disable the warnings to get this to work with the verify_ssl=False flag. 

I've tried multiple solutions to the SSL certificate problem (such as running "Install Certificates.command"),  but so far nothing has worked.

[Florian Bonniec]

Usually it's ok to have warning, the "requests.exceptions.TooManyRedirects: Exceeded 30 redirects." is another error.

Can you try to add an header to your request following this recommandation

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23651947/python-requests-requests-exceptions-toomanyredirects-exceeded-30-redirects

[Rob Lamb]

Thank you for the help!  I eventually got it to work, details in the next post.

[Christian B.]

how?

[Rob Lamb]

Hi Christian, please see the "Answer Accepted" post from me at the top of this thread for details.

[Christian B.]

oh, sorry.

Many Thanks!