title: SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED certificate verify failed - Google Colab
body: <p>I am trying to <strong>scrape</strong> data from a url using beautifulsoup. Below is my code</p>
  <pre><code>import requests
  
  URL = &quot;https://bigdataldn.com/speakers/&quot;
  page = requests.get(URL)
  
  print(page.text)
  </code></pre>
  <p>However I am getting the following error when I run the code in google colab.</p>
  <pre><code>SSLCertVerificationError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:1091)
  
  
  During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
  
  MaxRetryError                             Traceback (most recent call last)
  
  MaxRetryError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='bigdataldn.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: / (Caused by SSLError(SSLCertVerificationError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:1091)')))
  </code></pre>
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Wkm2v.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Wkm2v.png" alt="Screenshot of Error" /></a></p>
  <p>The above code works fine for other urls.
  Can someone help me figure out how to solve this issue.</p>