After installation of openssl 1.1.1, youtube-dl is not working any more (ERROR: Unable to download webpage: SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED (_ssl.c:726)

[Wikinaut]

I installed openssl 1.1.1 and (apparently) since then, yt-dl is throwing this error for all webpages:

ERROR:
Unable to download webpage:
<urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:726)>
(caused by URLError(SSLError(1, u'[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:726)'),))

Is there a way to fix this?

Versions:

• current: OpenSSL 1.1.1b 26 Feb 2019
• previous: OpenSSL 1.1.0g 2 Nov 2017

[dstftw]

Use search.

[Wikinaut]

@dstftw Thanks for your swift reply.

Of course, I searched before posting here. Unfortunately, there is no clear and easy solution, it still looks to me as a specific problem (most of the results speak about problems of finding the certificate bundle; I could not fix the present issue quickly other than going back to openssl 1.1.0).

Perhaps newer versions of youtube-dl will catch this problem in a different way, at the latest when openssl 1.1.1 is more widely deployed.