ERROR: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed

Alpaca Integration Applications App-Integration
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I am attempting to run the alpacahq/example-scalping script in Python 3.8 but I continue to get the [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed error each time I run.

I am on a Mac with 10.14.6 running Python 3.8, I have already tried the Install Certificates command in the application folder as well as installing certifi, neither of which have worked.

any ideas?

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Hi there! I don’t know if this is still an issue for you, but I fixed this by navigating to
/Applications/Python 3.8/Install Certificates.command
and clicking the file.

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Can you please suggest the exact step you used?

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These errors are typical when the version of python on you OSX has no certificates and cannot validate SSL connections.

There are a number of solutions on stack overflow. You can check for a solution that applies best to your case here.