Unable to get local issuer certificate when accessing Roboflow API in Jupyter Notebook

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Having a certificate issue each time I try to run the below code in a Jupyter Notebook:

from roboflow import Roboflow
rf = Roboflow(api_key=“YOUR API KEY”)
project = rf.workspace(“YOUR-WORKSPACE”).project(“YOUR-PROJECT”)
dataset = project.version(1).download(“yolov7”)

Here’s the error message I get:

requests.exceptions.SSLError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host=‘api.roboflow.com’, port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /?api_key=dUNehdeJFyYQ1l5x6spo (Caused by SSLError(SSLCertVerificationError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:997)')))

Here’s the message I get upon adjusting the certifi version to 2022.12.7 (which should work with the Roboflow API):

ERROR: pip’s dependency resolver does not currently take into account all the packages that are installed. This behaviour is the source of the following dependency conflicts.
roboflow 1.1.0 requires certifi==2022.12.7, but you have certifi 2023.5.7 which is incompatible.

Any thoughts?

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Can you give more information about your system and network? My guess would be a missing root certificate on your machine. Or possibly a proxy/VPN messing things up in between you and the server.

Here’s an independent SSL Test showing that the certificate chain is valid and has an A+ security rating: SSL Server Test: api.roboflow.com (Powered by Qualys SSL Labs)

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That said, if you absolutely can’t get the SSL config to work, one workaround could be to disable validation of the certificate chain (that links to a hack for how to do it for your script globally using an environment variable and a slightly outdated version of requests) but I’d only do that as a last resort.