SSL Error - Whisper Cannot Initialize Models due to failed verification of certificate [LINUX]

[ehobson]

Cannot get program to run, fails at SSL verification. Have tried many different things. Using Python 3.11.1

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/urllib/request.py", line 1348, in do_open
    h.request(req.get_method(), req.selector, req.data, headers,
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/http/client.py", line 1282, in request
    self._send_request(method, url, body, headers, encode_chunked)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/http/client.py", line 1328, in _send_request
    self.endheaders(body, encode_chunked=encode_chunked)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/http/client.py", line 1277, in endheaders
    self._send_output(message_body, encode_chunked=encode_chunked)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/http/client.py", line 1037, in _send_output
    self.send(msg)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/http/client.py", line 975, in send
    self.connect()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/http/client.py", line 1454, in connect
    self.sock = self._context.wrap_socket(self.sock,
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/ssl.py", line 517, in wrap_socket
    return self.sslsocket_class._create(
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/ssl.py", line 1075, in _create
    self.do_handshake()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/ssl.py", line 1346, in do_handshake
    self._sslobj.do_handshake()
ssl.SSLCertVerificationError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: self signed certificate in certificate chain (_ssl.c:992)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/erik/.local/bin/whisper", line 33, in <module>
    sys.exit(load_entry_point('whisper==1.0', 'console_scripts', 'whisper')())
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/erik/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/whisper/transcribe.py", line 304, in cli
    model = load_model(model_name, device=device, download_root=model_dir)
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/erik/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/whisper/__init__.py", line 102, in load_model
    checkpoint_file = _download(_MODELS[name], download_root, in_memory)
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/erik/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/whisper/__init__.py", line 49, in _download
    with urllib.request.urlopen(url) as source, open(download_target, "wb") as output:
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/urllib/request.py", line 216, in urlopen
    return opener.open(url, data, timeout)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/urllib/request.py", line 519, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/urllib/request.py", line 536, in _open
    result = self._call_chain(self.handle_open, protocol, protocol +
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/urllib/request.py", line 496, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
             ^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/urllib/request.py", line 1391, in https_open
    return self.do_open(http.client.HTTPSConnection, req,
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/urllib/request.py", line 1351, in do_open
    raise URLError(err)
urllib.error.URLError: <urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: self signed certificate in certificate chain (_ssl.c:992)>

I referenced this for a similar Whisper error and the provided answer did not resolve the problem.

[ehobson]

I cannot load the models because the site they are being referenced from is not trusted (issue with self-signed certificate). The same issue occurs either in the main OS environment or within Python.

[ehobson]

This works inside of Python:

import ssl
ssl._create_default_https_context = ssl._create_unverified_context

[MrBenGriffin]

This isn't really an answer, as it merely turns off ssl verification.

[shicoscode]

it bypassed the problem

[ehobson]

I have not tried this, as I was content with my solution, but another workaround would be to simply download the models manually and then place them in the folder where Whisper stores them so that Whisper does not need to use the API to download them and therefore will not perform the SSL check.

---

Edit - performed this with the remaining models that I had not used and can verify that it works.

[ehobson]

The models are stored in /home/{user}/.cache/whisper/

They can be downloaded from the following sources:

"tiny.en": "https://openaipublic.azureedge.net/main/whisper/models/d3dd57d32accea0b295c96e26691aa14d8822fac7d9d27d5dc00b4ca2826dd03/tiny.en.pt",
"tiny": "https://openaipublic.azureedge.net/main/whisper/models/65147644a518d12f04e32d6f3b26facc3f8dd46e5390956a9424a650c0ce22b9/tiny.pt",
"base.en": "https://openaipublic.azureedge.net/main/whisper/models/25a8566e1d0c1e2231d1c762132cd20e0f96a85d16145c3a00adf5d1ac670ead/base.en.pt",
"base": "https://openaipublic.azureedge.net/main/whisper/models/ed3a0b6b1c0edf879ad9b11b1af5a0e6ab5db9205f891f668f8b0e6c6326e34e/base.pt",
"small.en": "https://openaipublic.azureedge.net/main/whisper/models/f953ad0fd29cacd07d5a9eda5624af0f6bcf2258be67c92b79389873d91e0872/small.en.pt",
"small": "https://openaipublic.azureedge.net/main/whisper/models/9ecf779972d90ba49c06d968637d720dd632c55bbf19d441fb42bf17a411e794/small.pt",
"medium.en": "https://openaipublic.azureedge.net/main/whisper/models/d7440d1dc186f76616474e0ff0b3b6b879abc9d1a4926b7adfa41db2d497ab4f/medium.en.pt",
"medium": "https://openaipublic.azureedge.net/main/whisper/models/345ae4da62f9b3d59415adc60127b97c714f32e89e936602e85993674d08dcb1/medium.pt",
"large-v1": "https://openaipublic.azureedge.net/main/whisper/models/e4b87e7e0bf463eb8e6956e646f1e277e901512310def2c24bf0e11bd3c28e9a/large-v1.pt",
"large-v2": "https://openaipublic.azureedge.net/main/whisper/models/81f7c96c852ee8fc832187b0132e569d6c3065a3252ed18e56effd0b6a73e524/large-v2.pt",
"large": "https://openaipublic.azureedge.net/main/whisper/models/81f7c96c852ee8fc832187b0132e569d6c3065a3252ed18e56effd0b6a73e524/large-v2.pt",

[EfraimGENC]

Some extra help
Latest urls in here.

# Example
...
model = whisper.load_model("/path/of/downloaded/pt/file/large-v3.pt")
...

[lixvbnet]

I am on MacOS. Running following command works for me.

/Applications/Python\ 3.10/Install\ Certificates.command

Ref: https://stackoverflow.com/a/42334357/18849885

If you have installed Python 3.6 on OSX and are getting the "SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED" error when trying to connect to an https:// site, it's probably because Python 3.6 on OSX has no certificates at all, and can't validate any SSL connections. This is a change for 3.6 on OSX, and requires a post-install step, which installs the certifi package of certificates. This is documented in the file ReadMe.rtf, which you can find at /Applications/Python\ 3.6/ReadMe.rtf (see also the file Conclusion.rtf, and the script build-installer.py that generates the macOS installer).

The ReadMe will have you run the post-install script at

/Applications/Python\ 3.10/Install\ Certificates.command (Terminal App, this command alone should, fix the issue. Be sure to update the file path using your current subversion.)

[agardnerIT]

The command this runs in pip install --upgrade certifi

[pavinod]

This worked for me: running the Install.certificates.command file within the Applications\Python 3.11 folder.
https://www.dev2qa.com/how-to-fix-python-error-certificate-verify-failed-unable-to-get-local-issuer-certificate-in-mac-os/

[ellite23]

If you are still facing any issue and not getting the proper solution, I found the helpful resource, you can check out the following guide:- https://cheapsslweb.com/blog/ssl-certificate-verify-failed-error-in-python/.

I hope it helps!