[python] How do I disable the security certificate check in Python requests

I am using

import requests
requests.post(url='https://foo.com', data={'bar':'baz'})

but I get a request.exceptions.SSLError. The website has an expired certficate, but I am not sending sensitive data, so it doesn't matter to me. I would imagine there is an argument like 'verifiy=False' that I could use, but I can't seem to find it.

Use requests.packages.urllib3.disable_warnings() and verify=False on requests methods.

import requests
from urllib3.exceptions import InsecureRequestWarning

# Suppress only the single warning from urllib3 needed.
requests.packages.urllib3.disable_warnings(category=InsecureRequestWarning)

# Set `verify=False` on `requests.post`.
requests.post(url='https://example.com', data={'bar':'baz'}, verify=False)

To add to Blender's answer, you can disable SSL certificate validation for all requests using Session.verify = False

import requests

session = requests.Session()
session.verify = False
session.post(url='https://example.com', data={'bar':'baz'})

Note that urllib3, (which Requests uses), strongly discourages making unverified HTTPS requests and will raise an InsecureRequestWarning.

Also can be done from the environment variable:

export CURL_CA_BUNDLE=""

If you want to send exactly post request with verify=False option, fastest way is to use this code:

import requests

requests.api.request('post', url, data={'bar':'baz'}, json=None, verify=False)

If you are writing a scraper and really don't care about the SSL certificate you can set it global:

import ssl

ssl._create_default_https_context = ssl._create_unverified_context

DO NOT USE IN PRODUCTION