Creating a discord bot, getting ssl errors?

[rsa16]

Hi!

I have written a CGI script to start my discord bot and output any errors that may occur, and I keep getting this error:

ssl.SSLCertVerificationError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:997)

The full traceback is at https://pastebin.com/jWBLn6x0, sorry everything has the word "line" appended before it, it was how my script outputted the log.
If anyone could help that would be great!

[Kairion]

We do have a tutorial about Discord bots, but it was written when we still used cPanel, so it may need to be adapted.

Anyway, here it goes: https://wiki.helionet.org/tutorials/discord-bot

Since I'm not a Python programmer, I am unable to help much further than that.

EDIT:

@rsa16, I talked with our staff about your case, and one of our root admins recommend that you use that code to solve your error:

import certifi
os.environ["SSL_CERT_FILE"] = certifi.where()

 

Edited March 17 by Kairion
Including possible solution.

[rsa16]

Yeah, that's the exact tutorial I saw. I tried to get it to work on Plesk and I got pretty far except I encountered that error, and now I'm basically clueless. I think it has something to do with an outdated certificate but I'm not sure.

EDIT:
Sorry, I didn't refresh my page and see your edit, thanks for the solution, I'll try and see if it works!

Edited March 17 by rsa16
didn't refresh page and see the other edit

[rsa16]

Thank you so much! That works!

[Kairion]

I am glad to know it worked.

Let us know if you need help with anything else.