GeoPy SSL Certificate Verify Failed: certificate has expired (_ssl.c:1056)

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UPDATE:

Okay, so I was finally able to figure it out. Apparently I accidentally installed something through pip before leaving the other day, which had some sort of conflict with GeoPy. The package in question was called device, and uninstalling it fixed everything.

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OP:

my first post here. I'm still learning python, so please excuse any newbie mistakes.

My OS is Windows 10, and I am using Python 3.7.3. I am attempting to get an address using the geopy API, using the geolocator.reverse() function, to which I supply a latitude and longitude which I get using os.popen:

lat, lon = os.popen('curl ipinfo.io/loc').read().split(',')
print(lat, lon)

and I am using the following code to get the address:

geoLoc = Nominatim(user_agent="GetLoc", scheme='http')
locname = geoLoc.reverse(str(lat)+","+str(lon))
print(location.address)

This was working fine as of 3:30 PM yesterday afternoon, and I saved it before leaving the office.

However, today when I came back, the same code no longer works (I can only assume there was an update, or someone changed something on my machine while I was gone), and generates a very long error message, which I will post below.

I have looked around for people that have had the same problem, and while I did find some who experienced a similar issue, none of the solutions worked. I tried updating ssl, Geopy, GeoCoders, and certifi, as well as re-installing all of these, but that didn't make any difference.

Here is all the code I am using for this simple script:

import geopy.geocoders
from geopy.geocoders import Nominatim
import os 
import certifi
import ssl
ssl._create_default_https_context = ssl._create_unverified_context
# Get ip information
lat, lon = os.popen('curl ipinfo.io/loc').read().split(',')
print(lat, lon)

# calling the Nominatim tool
geoLoc = Nominatim(user_agent="GetLoc", scheme='http') #Program crashes here

# entering the location name
location = geoLoc.reverse(str(lat)+","+str(lon))

# print address
print(location.address)

And below is the full output + error messages it's giving me. Is there something wrong with the GeoPy API? I spent perhaps 4 hours looking for a solution, but never found anything that worked.

C:\Python Scripts>python geo.py
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100    17  100    17    0     0    144      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--   145
34.7304 -86.5859

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\CalebC\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\requests\packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 541, in urlopen
    body=body, headers=headers)
  File "C:\Users\CalebC\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\requests\packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 366, in _make_request
    conn.request(method, url, **httplib_request_kw)
  File "C:\Users\CalebC\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\http\client.py", line 1229, in request
    self._send_request(method, url, body, headers, encode_chunked)
  File "C:\Users\CalebC\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\http\client.py", line 1275, in _send_request
    self.endheaders(body, encode_chunked=encode_chunked)
  File "C:\Users\CalebC\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\http\client.py", line 1224, in endheaders
    self._send_output(message_body, encode_chunked=encode_chunked)
  File "C:\Users\CalebC\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\http\client.py", line 1016, in _send_output
    self.send(msg)
  File "C:\Users\CalebC\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\http\client.py", line 956, in send
    self.connect()
  File "C:\Users\CalebC\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\requests\packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 131, in connect
    ssl_version=resolved_ssl_version)
  File "C:\Users\CalebC\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\requests\packages\urllib3\util.py", line 617, in ssl_wrap_socket
    return context.wrap_socket(sock, server_hostname=server_hostname)
  File "C:\Users\CalebC\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\ssl.py", line 412, in wrap_socket
    session=session
  File "C:\Users\CalebC\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\ssl.py", line 853, in _create
    self.do_handshake()
  File "C:\Users\CalebC\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\ssl.py", line 1117, in do_handshake
    self._sslobj.do_handshake()
ssl.SSLCertVerificationError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: certificate has expired (_ssl.c:1056)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\CalebC\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\requests\adapters.py", line 319, in send
    timeout=timeout
  File "C:\Users\CalebC\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\requests\packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 574, in urlopen
    raise SSLError(e)
requests.packages.urllib3.exceptions.SSLError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: certificate has expired (_ssl.c:1056)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\CalebC\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\geopy\adapters.py", line 448, in _request
    resp = self.session.get(url, timeout=timeout, headers=headers)
  File "C:\Users\CalebC\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 369, in get
    return self.request('GET', url, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\CalebC\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 357, in request
    resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\CalebC\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 480, in send
    history = [resp for resp in gen] if allow_redirects else []
  File "C:\Users\CalebC\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 480, in <listcomp>
    history = [resp for resp in gen] if allow_redirects else []
  File "C:\Users\CalebC\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 144, in resolve_redirects
    allow_redirects=False,
  File "C:\Users\CalebC\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 460, in send
    r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\CalebC\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\requests\adapters.py", line 358, in send
    raise SSLError(e)
requests.exceptions.SSLError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: certificate has expired (_ssl.c:1056)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "geo.py", line 15, in <module>
    location = geoLoc.reverse(str(lat)+","+str(lon))
  File "C:\Users\CalebC\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\geopy\geocoders\nominatim.py", line 362, in reverse
    return self._call_geocoder(url, callback, timeout=timeout)
  File "C:\Users\CalebC\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\geopy\geocoders\base.py", line 368, in _call_geocoder
    result = self.adapter.get_json(url, timeout=timeout, headers=req_headers)
  File "C:\Users\CalebC\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\geopy\adapters.py", line 438, in get_json
    resp = self._request(url, timeout=timeout, headers=headers)
  File "C:\Users\CalebC\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\geopy\adapters.py", line 460, in _request
    raise GeocoderUnavailable(message)
geopy.exc.GeocoderUnavailable: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: certificate has expired (_ssl.c:1056)