youtube-dl.exe can't retrieve current version

[WillPittenger]

Checklist

• I'm reporting a broken site support
• I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2020.06.16.1
• I've checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
• I've checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
• I've searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones

I been getting an error when I try to update youtube-dl.exe on Windows 8.1 Pro. I've run youtube-dl.exe --update, but I get an error message stating the program can't find out what the current version is.

Verbose log

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: ['--mark-watched', '--ffmpeg-location', 'C:\Program Files\ffdshow\bin', '-f', '[height<=1080]',
'--recode-video', 'mp4', '-u', 'PRIVATE', '-p', 'PRIVATE']
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--update', '-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.06.16.1
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-8.1-6.3.9600
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-77883-gd7c75a5, ffprobe N-77883-gd7c75a5
[debug] Proxy map: {}
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 1183, in do_open
File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\http\client.py", line 1137, in request
File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\http\client.py", line 1182, in _send_request
File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\http\client.py", line 1133, in endheaders
File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\http\client.py", line 963, in _send_output
File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\http\client.py", line 898, in send
File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\http\client.py", line 1287, in connect
File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\ssl.py", line 362, in wrap_socket
File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\ssl.py", line 580, in init
File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\ssl.py", line 807, in do_handshake
ssl.SSLError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:600)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpspbsbtmq\build\youtube_dl\update.py", line 46,
in update_self
File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 464, in open
File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 482, in _open
File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 442, in _call_chain
File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\ytdl-org\tmpspbsbtmq\build\youtube_dl\utils.py", line 2736
, in https_open
File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 1185, in do_open
urllib.error.URLError: <urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:600)>

ERROR: can't find the current version. Please try again later.

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[WillPittenger]

Could you link the other issue?

[garoto]

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