Pytube certificate error

[ultrastresliporsuk]

Hey,

from pytube import YouTube
url = YouTube("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRfZf43dnj8&ab_channel=TED-Ed")
print(f"video title {url.title}")

Whenever i ran this code snippet, python throws "urllib.error.URLError: <urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:1000)>".
I tried many ways to fix it. But it didnt work.
I tried to update certificates in terminal, install new python version, applications-->python3.13 and double click to install certificate command file. None of them worked.
I use macos and from what I've seen, this problem is mostly experienced by macOS users.
Do you know any solution to solve this? i'm going crazy.

[snippsat]

Pytube is not mantaint anymore use pytubefix or yt-dlp.
If you installed Python from python.org, there’s a script in your Python folder that bootstraps certifi and installs a CA bundle.
In Terminal:

cd "/Applications/Python 3.13"
sudo "./Install Certificates.command"

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If you’re using Homebrew Python or the above script didn’t work, do this:

pip3 install --upgrade certifi

Export the SSL_CERT_FILE environment var so urllib uses it:

export SSL_CERT_FILE=$(python3 -c "import certifi; print(certifi.where())")

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Tell Python at runtime to use certifi’s bundle

import os
import certifi
os.environ['SSL_CERT_FILE'] = certifi.where()

#from pytube import YouTube
from pytubefix import YouTube

yt = YouTube("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRfZf43dnj8&ab_channel=TED-Ed")
print(f"video title: {yt.title}")