--no-check-certificate option in pafy ?

[bharadwajpro]

--no-check-certificate option in youtube-dl suppresses HTTPS certificate verification. Is there any similar option for not checking SSL certificate in pafy ?

[ids1024]

If the youtube-dl backend is being used, youtube-dl options can be passed to pafy by passing a ydl_opts argument to pafy.new().

[bharadwajpro]

How to pass --no-check-certificate option to ydl_opts which can be passed to pafy.new() ? Can you please provide the example code. I looked everywhere in the internet and your documentation. It is unclear. I tried the below code but it is displaying error as ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED]. The code is
import pafy
url = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyLiep0mM0A"
ydl_opts = {"--no-check-certificate": True}
myvid = pafy.new(url, ydl_opts)

I tried using youtube-dl and it works fine. I think the problem is I am passing --no-check-certificate in the wrong way to ydl_opts. I know there is some SSL_CERTIFICATE problem that needs to be fixed. But first I want to know how to skip HTTPS verification in pafy ?

[ritiek]

I am having the same issue. I tried pafy.new(url, ydl_opts={'nocheckcertificate': True}) looking deeper here but it does not seem to work either.

[ids1024]

Perhaps the issue is due to the API calls pafy itself makes? Exactly what error do you get?

[ritiek]

@ids1024 I upgraded my python from v2.7.11 to v2.7.13 and now everything seems to work correctly without even using --no-check-certificate option. I don't remember the exact error but it was very similar to the one in this issue on youtube-dl.

ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:581)> (caused by URLError(SSLError(1, u'[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:581)'),))

Thanks anyway! 😄

[KirkSuD]

@ids1024 I found that ydl_opts aren't passed into youtube_dl.
In pafy.py, function new, return Pafy(url, basic, gdata, size, callback, ydl_opts).
In backend_youtube_dl.py, class YtdlPafy, function __init__, ydl_opts = kwargs.get("ydl_opts").
Looks like it's passing arguments, not keyword arguments, so kwargs.get won't get anything!!!
New to github, if I said anything wrong, please tell me immediately. 😄

[pixelein]

Hello everyone,
I know it's too late to answer, but my answer may help someone. So...
There was an issue, when I run mpsyt and try to search some thing the annoying error message shown:
<urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:847)>
I figured out this message comes from openssl, then I just added these lines to pafy/backend_shared.py and pafy/backend_internal.py after lines 6 and 9 accordingly:

import ssl

ssl._create_default_https_context = ssl._create_unverified_context

and a line self._ydl_opts['nocheckcertificate'] = True to pafy/backend_youtube_dl.py

if ydl_opts:
    self._ydl_opts.update(ydl_opts)
...
# after these lines like that (line 28)
self._ydl_opts['nocheckcertificate'] = True

then mpsyt works fine.
If you want youtube_dl work without checking certificate by default then you can change nocheckcertificate default parameter to True in line 354 of file youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py