pycurl https error: unable to get local issuer certificate
The problem is that pycurl needs an up-to-date certificate chain to verify the ssl certificates.
A good solution would be to use certifi.
It's basically an up-to-date copy of mozilla's built in certificate chain wrapped in a python package which can be kept up to date using pip. certifi.where() gives you the location to the certificate bundle.
To make pycurl to use it, set the CAINFO option:
import pycurlimport certificurl = pycurl.Curl()curl.setopt(pycurl.CAINFO, certifi.where())curl.setopt(pycurl.URL, 'https://www.quora.com')curl.perform()