Pipeline for opentapioca not working

^{Originally posted by **piaschwarz** October 25, 2024}
I am using opentapioca for entity linking.
The code worked before but now calling the opentapioca endpoint throws an error (happens with _and_ without the endpoint url in the config variable).

Is it a problem on my side or is the endpoint not working?

**Versions:**
Python 3.10.6
spacy 3.3.1
spacy-transformers 1.1.7
spacyopentapioca 0.1.7

**My code**:
```
import spacy

nlp_spacy_trf = spacy.load('de_dep_news_trf')
dummy_text = "Christian Drosten arbeitet an der Charité in Berlin."

nlp_spacy_trf.add_pipe('opentapioca', config={"url": "https://opentapioca.wordlift.io/api/annotate?lc=de"})
doc = nlp_spacy_trf(dummy_text)
for span in doc.ents:
print((span.text, span.kb_id_, span.label_, span._.description, span._.score))
```

keeps throwing this **error**:
```
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/xxxxxxxx/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 703, in urlopen
httplib_response = self._make_request(
File "/home/xxxxxxxx/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 386, in _make_request
self._validate_conn(conn)
File "/home/xxxxxxxx/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 1042, in _validate_conn
conn.connect()
File "/home/xxxxxxxx/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 414, in connect
self.sock = ssl_wrap_socket(
File "/home/xxxxxxxx/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urllib3/util/ssl_.py", line 449, in ssl_wrap_socket
ssl_sock = _ssl_wrap_socket_impl(
File "/home/xxxxxxxx/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urllib3/util/ssl_.py", line 493, in _ssl_wrap_socket_impl
return ssl_context.wrap_socket(sock, server_hostname=server_hostname)
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/ssl.py", line 513, in wrap_socket
return self.sslsocket_class._create(
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/ssl.py", line 1071, in _create
self.do_handshake()
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/ssl.py", line 1342, in do_handshake
self._sslobj.do_handshake()
ssl.SSLCertVerificationError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: self-signed certificate (_ssl.c:997)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/xxxxxxxx/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 489, in send
resp = conn.urlopen(
File "/home/xxxxxxxx/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 787, in urlopen
retries = retries.increment(
File "/home/xxxxxxxx/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urllib3/util/retry.py", line 592, in increment
raise MaxRetryError(_pool, url, error or ResponseError(cause))
urllib3.exceptions.MaxRetryError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='opentapioca.wordlift.io', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /api/annotate?lc=de (Caused by SSLError(SSLCertVerificationError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: self-signed certificate (_ssl.c:997)')))

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/mnt/c/Users/XXXXX/PycharmProjects/EntityLinking/experiments.py", line 10, in
doc = nlp_spacy_trf(dummy_text)
File "/home/xxxxxxxx/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/spacy/language.py", line 1025, in __call__
error_handler(name, proc, [doc], e)
File "/home/xxxxxxxx/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/spacy/util.py", line 1630, in raise_error
raise e
File "/home/xxxxxxxx/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/spacy/language.py", line 1020, in __call__
doc = proc(doc, **component_cfg.get(name, {})) # type: ignore[call-arg]
File "/home/xxxxxxxx/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/spacyopentapioca/entity_linker.py", line 101, in __call__
r = self.make_request(doc)
File "/home/xxxxxxxx/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/spacyopentapioca/entity_linker.py", line 93, in make_request
return requests.post(url=self.url,
File "/home/xxxxxxxx/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/requests/api.py", line 115, in post
return request("post", url, data=data, json=json, **kwargs)
File "/home/xxxxxxxx/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/requests/api.py", line 59, in request
return session.request(method=method, url=url, **kwargs)
File "/home/xxxxxxxx/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 587, in request
resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
File "/home/xxxxxxxx/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 701, in send
r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
File "/home/xxxxxxxx/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 563, in send
raise SSLError(e, request=request)
requests.exceptions.SSLError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='opentapioca.wordlift.io', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /api/annotate?lc=de (Caused by SSLError(SSLCertVerificationError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: self-signed certificate (_ssl.c:997)')))
```