Unable to verify certificate

[Probe1]

Nothing out of the ordinary, used yt-dl to grab https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWxJEIz7sSA and it kicked back that it could not verify the certificate. Using latest build 11/10.

Downloading video... ERROR: Unable to download webpage: (urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_sll.c:590 (caused by URLError(1, u'[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:590)'),))

[yan12125]

Which operating system are you using? Windows XP, 7 or Linux, Mac OS X? Please post the full log from the following command:

youtube-dl --verbose "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWxJEIz7sSA"

[Probe1]

Windows 7 latest service pack.

Enter youtube url: youtube-dl --verbose https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWxJEIz7
sSA
Downloading video...
WARNING: The url doesn't specify the protocol, trying with http
WARNING: Could not send HEAD request to http://youtube-dl --verbose https://www.
youtube.com/watch?v=pWxJEIz7sSA: <urlopen error [Errno 11004] getaddrinfo failed
>
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [Errno 11004] getaddrinfo fail
ed> (caused by URLError(gaierror(11004, 'getaddrinfo failed'),))

Couldn't download the youtube video. Did you copy the url correctly?
Press any key to continue . . .

[yan12125]

Looks like you're using a wrapper but not youtube-dl itself. Could you run the command given above in Command Prompt (cmd.exe)?

[codaman]

i'm using youtube-dl on .net web service it also get this error

Traceback (most recent call last): File "main.py", line 19, in File "youtube_dl__init__.pyo", line 410, in main File "youtube_dl__init__.pyo", line 377, in _real_main File "youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.pyo", line 338, in init File "youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.pyo", line 1969, in _setup_opener File "youtube_dl\utils.pyo", line 492, in make_HTTPS_handler File "ssl.pyo", line 440, in create_default_context File "ssl.pyo", line 391, in load_default_certs File "ssl.pyo", line 378, in _load_windows_store_certs WindowsError: [Error 5] Access is denied

[bamcdougall]

I have same issue. Using latest build 11/10:
Downloading video... ERROR: Unable to download webpage: (urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_sll.c:590 (caused by URLError(1, u'[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:590)'),))

Using command line prompt, the following command is issued:

youtube-dl -i --batch-file ./ImportChoons.txt --format "best" --extract-audio --audio-format "best" --audio-quality 0

where ImportChoons.txt is a file containing misc links to video clips on YouTube.
OS: Windows 7 Professional, 64 bit, Service Pack 1

Only change from youtube-dl working and not working is upgrading youtube-dl to 11/10/2015 version

[dstftw]

Duplicate of #7309.