bozo_exception': URLError(SSLCertVerificationError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED

[simonw]

I tried running feediverse with some feeds configured and it exited without publishing anything - and adding -v didn't show me what was going on.

Eventually I hacked in enough print statements to get this output:

feed obj is {'bozo': True, 'entries': [], 'feed': {}, 'headers': {}, 'bozo_exception': URLError(SSLCertVerificationError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:997)'))}

It looks like feedparser returned that error in a dictionary that included an empty "entries": [] array - so feediverse failed silently rather than showing the error.

As for the error itself... I managed to fix that by adding the following to the top of feediverse.py:

import ssl
ssl._create_default_https_context=ssl._create_unverified_context

Based on this StackOveflow tip: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40666767/how-to-fix-ssl-certificate-verify-failed-feedparser

[simonw]

Two fixes I suggest:

• Spot bozo_exception and turn it into a real error, so that the tool doesn't fail silently
• I guess add a --unsafe-ssl option that applies that nasty SSL hack, unless there's a better way?

The two feeds of mine which caused that error (which have perfectly valid SSL certificates as far as I can tell) were:

feeds:
- template: '{title} {url}'
  url: https://simonwillison.net/atom/everything/
- template: '{title} {link}'
  url: https://til.simonwillison.net/tils/feed.atom