Installation troubleshooting SSL Error

I’ve been trying to install LibreTranslate in the terminal on mac using python to host it locally and ultimately to integrate LibreTranslate into Obsidian with the Translate community plugin. Here’s what I wrote in terminal:

pip3 install libretranslate
libretranslate

installation seems successful but running ‘libretranslate’ spits out the following endlessly repeating error message:

(URLError(SSLCertVerificationError(1, ‘[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:997)’)),)

I’ve attempted to uninstall and reinstall libretranslate with ‘pip3 uninstall libretranslate’ with the same result.

Any ideas?

Make sure you can connect to cloudflare URLs. Where are you connecting from?