Got an 'API Error' from Wikipedia API

Kevin_Deng · Oct 7, 2021

I want to get data from Wikipedia API by Python, this is my code:

result = wikipedia.summary(kw,sentences=10)

At first, it works very well, but when i tried too many times, I got the error message as follows:

HTTPSConnectionPool(host='en.wikipedia.org', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /w/api.php?list=search&srprop=&srlimit=1&limit=1&srsearch=twotooth+achyranthes+root&srinfo=suggestion&format=json&action=query (Caused by SSLError(SSLError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:777)'),))

Does sb know how to solve this problem?
or any better solution?
Thanks.

Gogol · Oct 7, 2021

Kevin_Deng said:
I want to get data from Wikipedia API by Python, this is my code:

At first, it works very well, but when i tried too many times, I got the error message as follows:

Does sb know how to solve this problem?
or any better solution?
Thanks.

Try this (assuming you are using requests.. If not, tell us what you are using)..

Code:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/15445989/1437261

Basically, turn certificate verification off and you should be fine.

If you still get error, it's something else. You have probably reached the api rate limit or something.

Kevin_Deng · Oct 7, 2021

Thanks.

I used wikipedia, this is the url for this module

https://pypi.org/project/wikipedia/

I didn't check the souce code, so I don't know if if uses requests.

Kevin_Deng · Oct 7, 2021

@Gogol

I checked the souce code, and added "veryfiy = false " in requets,

problem solved. thanks.

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