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youtube-dl works when installed by Brew but not pipx

See original GitHub issue

same version of youtube-dl across both

❌ doesn’t work with pipx

$ youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFZj_Srj4eU

[youtube] FFZj_Srj4eU: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:749)> (caused by URLError(SSLError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:749)'),))

$ pipx list
venvs are in /Users/zach/.local/pipx/venvs
apps are exposed on your $PATH at /Users/zach/.local/bin
   package youtube-dl 2019.9.28, Python 3.6.1
    - youtube-dl

$ pipx uninstall youtube-dl
uninstalled youtube-dl! ✨ 🌟 ✨

✅ does work with brew

$ brew install youtube-dl
==> Summary
🍺  /usr/local/Cellar/youtube-dl/2019.09.28: 12 files, 2.1MB, built in 4 seconds

$ source $HOME/.bash_profile
 updating ~/.bash_profile at: Wed Oct  2 17:29:47 EDT 2019

$ youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFZj_Srj4eU
[youtube] FFZj_Srj4eU: Downloading webpage
[youtube] FFZj_Srj4eU: Downloading video info webpage
[download] Destination: The Clipse- Mr. Me Too-FFZj_Srj4eU.webm
[download] 100% of 3.44MiB in 00:01
[ffmpeg] Destination: The Clipse- Mr. Me Too-FFZj_Srj4eU.mp3
Deleting original file The Clipse- Mr. Me Too-FFZj_Srj4eU.webm (pass -k to keep)

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moribellamycommented, Nov 10, 2019

I just got the same error. it’s got something to do with the ssl certs that come with a python install. this stackoverflow links to a package which helps some people by installing extra certs, but it didn’t work for me: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/4816.

maybe this helps too https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39356413/how-to-add-a-custom-ca-root-certificate-to-the-ca-store-used-by-pip-in-windows.

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cs01commented, Oct 3, 2019

I am pretty sure this is something not directly related to pipx since I was able to run it on my mac, so I will close. Feel free to reopen if you find otherwise.

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