Why does my discord bot raise this error?

Question

I am developing a basic discord bot for fun and I am getting errors.

I have this basic Discord bot:

import discord
from tweet import tweet

client = discord.Client()

@client.event
async def on_ready():
    print("The bot is ready!")

@client.event
async def on_message(message):
    if message.content.startswith("j!tweet"):
        user = message.author.display_name
        tweetToTweet = message.content
        tweetToTweet = tweetToTweet.replace('j!tweet', '')
        tweet(user, tweetToTweet)
        await message.channel.send("Tweeted!")

client.run(MYTOKEN)

It is raising this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/aiohttp/connector.py", line 936, in _wrap_create_connection
    return await self._loop.create_connection(*args, **kwargs)  # type: ignore  # noqa
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/asyncio/base_events.py", line 981, in create_connection
    ssl_handshake_timeout=ssl_handshake_timeout)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/asyncio/base_events.py", line 1009, in _create_connection_transport
    await waiter
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/asyncio/sslproto.py", line 530, in data_received
    ssldata, appdata = self._sslpipe.feed_ssldata(data)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/asyncio/sslproto.py", line 189, in feed_ssldata
    self._sslobj.do_handshake()
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/ssl.py", line 774, in do_handshake
    self._sslobj.do_handshake()
ssl.SSLCertVerificationError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:1076)

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/usr/PycharmProjects/discordBot/app.py", line 22, in <module>
    client.run(TOKEN)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/discord/client.py", line 640, in run
    return future.result()
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/discord/client.py", line 621, in runner
    await self.start(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/discord/client.py", line 584, in start
    await self.login(*args, bot=bot)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/discord/client.py", line 442, in login
    await self.http.static_login(token.strip(), bot=bot)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/discord/http.py", line 261, in static_login
    data = await self.request(Route('GET', '/users/@me'))
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/discord/http.py", line 165, in request
    async with self.__session.request(method, url, **kwargs) as r:
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/aiohttp/client.py", line 1012, in __aenter__
    self._resp = await self._coro
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/aiohttp/client.py", line 483, in _request
    timeout=real_timeout
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/aiohttp/connector.py", line 523, in connect
    proto = await self._create_connection(req, traces, timeout)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/aiohttp/connector.py", line 859, in _create_connection
    req, traces, timeout)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/aiohttp/connector.py", line 1004, in _create_direct_connection
    raise last_exc
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/aiohttp/connector.py", line 986, in _create_direct_connection
    req=req, client_error=client_error)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/aiohttp/connector.py", line 939, in _wrap_create_connection
    req.connection_key, exc) from exc
aiohttp.client_exceptions.ClientConnectorCertificateError: Cannot connect to host discordapp.com:443 ssl:True [SSLCertVerificationError: (1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:1076)')]

What does this error mean? Why is this occurring? I have no idea at this moment what the error is, so it would be great if I could figure out the issue.

Answer 1

Basically, discord doesn't allow you to connect (this is what I understand from the image). I suggest to do this instead of the first 4 lines:

import discord
from discord.ext import commands
import tweet
client = command.Bot(commands_prefix='YOUR_PREFIX')