[Python] Python requests module: SSL: WRONG_VERSION_NUMBER error with specific website on...

I am working on a project using Python's requests module. I am only getting this error when attempting to request data from api.rugcheck.xyz on my local machine; I am able to request data from other websites on my local machine with no issue. I have also deployed a web app to Streamlit with get requests from rugcheck and it works fine, so I know its an issue specifically between rugcheck and my local machine. I am not super familiar with SSL or the requests module, so I know I must just be ignorant of something. See error below followed by my code.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\jacob\PycharmProjects\CoinCollector\.venv\Lib\site-packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 464, in _make_request
self._validate_conn(conn)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\jacob\PycharmProjects\CoinCollector\.venv\Lib\site-packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 1093, in _validate_conn
conn.connect()
~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
File "C:\Users\jacob\PycharmProjects\CoinCollector\.venv\Lib\site-packages\urllib3\connection.py", line 741, in connect
sock_and_verified = _ssl_wrap_socket_and_match_hostname(
sock=sock,
...<14 lines>...
assert_fingerprint=self.assert_fingerprint,
)
File "C:\Users\jacob\PycharmProjects\CoinCollector\.venv\Lib\site-packages\urllib3\connection.py", line 920, in _ssl_wrap_socket_and_match_hostname
ssl_sock = ssl_wrap_socket(
sock=sock,
...<8 lines>...
tls_in_tls=tls_in_tls,
)
File "C:\Users\jacob\PycharmProjects\CoinCollector\.venv\Lib\site-packages\urllib3\util\ssl_.py", line 480, in ssl_wrap_socket
ssl_sock = _ssl_wrap_socket_impl(sock, context, tls_in_tls, server_hostname)
File "C:\Users\jacob\PycharmProjects\CoinCollector\.venv\Lib\site-packages\urllib3\util\ssl_.py", line 524, in _ssl_wrap_socket_impl
return ssl_context.wrap_socket(sock, server_hostname=server_hostname)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\jacob\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\ssl.py", line 455, in wrap_socket
return self.sslsocket_class._create(
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
sock=sock,
^^^^^^^^^^
...<5 lines>...
session=session
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
)
^
File "C:\Users\jacob\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\ssl.py", line 1076, in _create
self.do_handshake()
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
File "C:\Users\jacob\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\ssl.py", line 1372, in do_handshake
self._sslobj.do_handshake()
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
ssl.SSLError: [SSL: WRONG_VERSION_NUMBER] wrong version number (_ssl.c:1018)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\jacob\PycharmProjects\CoinCollector\.venv\Lib\site-packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 787, in urlopen
response = self._make_request(
conn,
...<10 lines>...
**response_kw,
)
File "C:\Users\jacob\PycharmProjects\CoinCollector\.venv\Lib\site-packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 488, in _make_request
raise new_e
urllib3.exceptions.SSLError: [SSL: WRONG_VERSION_NUMBER] wrong version number (_ssl.c:1018)

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

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\jacob\PycharmProjects\CoinCollector\.venv\Lib\site-packages\requests\adapters.py", line 667, in send
resp = conn.urlopen(
method=request.method,
...<9 lines>...
chunked=chunked,
)
File "C:\Users\jacob\PycharmProjects\CoinCollector\.venv\Lib\site-packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 841, in urlopen
retries = retries.increment(
method, url, error=new_e, _pool=self, _stacktrace=sys.exc_info()[2]
)
File "C:\Users\jacob\PycharmProjects\CoinCollector\.venv\Lib\site-packages\urllib3\util\retry.py", line 519, in increment
raise MaxRetryError(_pool, url, reason) from reason # type: ignore[arg-type]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
urllib3.exceptions.MaxRetryError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='api.rugcheck.xyz', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /v1/stats/new_tokens (Caused by SSLError(SSLError(1, '[SSL: WRONG_VERSION_NUMBER] wrong version number (_ssl.c:1018)')))

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\jacob\PycharmProjects\CoinCollector\test.py", line 3, in <module>
response = requests.get("https://api.rugcheck.xyz/v1/stats/new_tokens")
File "C:\Users\jacob\PycharmProjects\CoinCollector\.venv\Lib\site-packages\requests\api.py", line 73, in get
return request("get", url, params=params, **kwargs)
File "C:\Users\jacob\PycharmProjects\CoinCollector\.venv\Lib\site-packages\requests\api.py", line 59, in request
return session.request(method=method, url=url, **kwargs)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\jacob\PycharmProjects\CoinCollector\.venv\Lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 589, in request
resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
File "C:\Users\jacob\PycharmProjects\CoinCollector\.venv\Lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 703, in send
r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
File "C:\Users\jacob\PycharmProjects\CoinCollector\.venv\Lib\site-packages\requests\adapters.py", line 698, in send
raise SSLError(e, request=request)
requests.exceptions.SSLError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='api.rugcheck.xyz', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /v1/stats/new_tokens (Caused by SSLError(SSLError(1, '[SSL: WRONG_VERSION_NUMBER] wrong version number (_ssl.c:1018)')))

Process finished with exit code 1


Here is my code:

import requests

response = requests.get("https://api.rugcheck.xyz/v1/stats/new_tokens")
data = response.json()
print(data)


I have updated urllib3, and I have checked my OpenSSl version (3.0.15). Searching for this error online yielded mixed results, most of which were not related to my specific issue. Where am I going wrong here?

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