NLTK SSL Errors loading...

I didn’t see this directly addressed earlier, but please correct me if I missed it.

I’m receiving these NLTK related errors when running ChatBot (but no issues when I’m coding up NLTK separately on another project.

Any guidance would be wonderful. Thanks guys.

[nltk_data] Error loading stopwords: <urlopen error [SSL:
[nltk_data]     CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed
[nltk_data]     (_ssl.c:749)>
[nltk_data] Error loading wordnet: <urlopen error [SSL:
[nltk_data]     CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed
[nltk_data]     (_ssl.c:749)>
[nltk_data] Error loading punkt: <urlopen error [SSL:
[nltk_data]     CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed
[nltk_data]     (_ssl.c:749)>
[nltk_data] Error loading vader_lexicon: <urlopen error [SSL:
[nltk_data]     CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed
[nltk_data]     (_ssl.c:749)>

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vkosuricommented, Aug 14, 2017

@sedemmler I don’t see any issues on my machine hp pro-book 440 g3

I googled your issue found some answer, i think this could help solve your problem

https://stackoverflow.com/a/41692664/358458 https://stackoverflow.com/a/39142816/358458

However the post suggested workaround related to SSL , i am not sure how this will effect on other platforms? @gunthercox any comments?

import nltk
import ssl

try:
    _create_unverified_https_context = ssl._create_unverified_context
except AttributeError:
    pass
else:
    ssl._create_default_https_context = _create_unverified_https_context

nltk.download()

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