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Error while reading Google Sheets v4 in FME Form 2023.2

  • May 6, 2026
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kmaheshv
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I am facing issue when reading Google Sheets v4 in FME, below error occurred. Help you know how it gets rid of it.
DEBUG: urllib3.connectionpool Retrying (Retry(total=9, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'SSLError(SSLCertVerificationError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:1006)'))': 

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desiree_at_safe
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Hi ​@kmaheshv! That SSL certificate error usually points to corporate network security performing HTTPS inspection on *.googleapis.com traffic. I'd recommend checking with your IT about this, or testing from a different network (like home WiFi without VPN) to see if the issue persists!

Also, since the Google Sheets reader is a Python-based format, it’s possible that FME's Python environment still needs to trust the certificate chain. Typically, FME checks the OS certificate store first, but may still need the certificate added to FME's bundled cacert.pem 

Here's an article on that for reference: SSL Certificate Handling for FME Transformers


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