depop SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED

[pastor91]

Hello !

When runing the commande for depop "python scraper.py -n" i get this error
Has anyone experienced this error?

PS C:\Users\berze\Downloads\Vinted-Scraper-main> python scraper.py -d
Creation of the directory failed or the folder already exists
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\berze\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 715, in urlopen
    httplib_response = self._make_request(
                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\berze\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 404, in _make_request
    self._validate_conn(conn)
  File "C:\Users\berze\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 1058, in _validate_conn
    conn.connect()
  File "C:\Users\berze\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\urllib3\connection.py", line 419, in connect
    self.sock = ssl_wrap_socket(
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\berze\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\urllib3\util\ssl_.py", line 449, in ssl_wrap_socket
    ssl_sock = _ssl_wrap_socket_impl(
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\berze\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\urllib3\util\ssl_.py", line 493, in _ssl_wrap_socket_impl
    return ssl_context.wrap_socket(sock, server_hostname=server_hostname)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\berze\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\cloudscraper\__init__.py", line 98, in wrap_socket
    return self.ssl_context.orig_wrap_socket(*args, **kwargs)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\berze\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\ssl.py", line 517, in wrap_socket
    return self.sslsocket_class._create(
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\berze\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\ssl.py", line 1108, in _create
    self.do_handshake()
  File "C:\Users\berze\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\ssl.py", line 1379, in do_handshake
    self._sslobj.do_handshake()
ssl.SSLCertVerificationError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: certificate has expired (_ssl.c:1006)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\berze\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\requests\adapters.py", line 440, in send
    resp = conn.urlopen(
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\berze\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 799, in urlopen
    retries = retries.increment(
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\berze\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\urllib3\util\retry.py", line 592, in increment
    raise MaxRetryError(_pool, url, error or ResponseError(cause))
urllib3.exceptions.MaxRetryError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='depop.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: / (Caused by SSLError(SSLCertVerificationError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: certificate has expired (_ssl.c:1006)')))

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\berze\Downloads\Vinted-Scraper-main\scraper.py", line 602, in <module>
    download_depop_data(userids)
  File "C:\Users\berze\Downloads\Vinted-Scraper-main\scraper.py", line 353, in download_depop_data
    s.get("https://depop.com")
  File "C:\Users\berze\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 542, in get
    return self.request('GET', url, **kwargs)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\berze\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\cloudscraper\__init__.py", line 257, in request
    self.perform_request(method, url, *args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\berze\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\cloudscraper\__init__.py", line 190, in perform_request
    return super(CloudScraper, self).request(method, url, *args, **kwargs)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\berze\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 529, in request
    resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\berze\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 645, in send
    r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\berze\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\requests\adapters.py", line 517, in send
    raise SSLError(e, request=request)
requests.exceptions.SSLError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='depop.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: / (Caused by SSLError(SSLCertVerificationError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: certificate has expired (_ssl.c:1006)')))

[Relax594]

Depop has increase their protection further. They also started temporarily banning IPs / Proxies. This will either have a 403 response or as in your case a 443 (Timeout). Haven't found a solution for myself yet and @Gertje823 is yet to respond to this or #47 .