amythical
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4 months ago Found a fix. TLDR - letsencrypt certificate expired so openssl bundled with node(mine was 8.10.0) throws this error. Use a httpsagent with the new certificate from letsencrypt. Fix detailed in the links. Solution in this link - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69414479/giving-axios-letsencrypts-new-root-certificate-on-old-version-of-node
Intermittently getting a certificate error
FetchError: request to https://api.pexels.com/v1//curated?page=1&per_page=40 failed, reason: certificate has expired at ClientRequest. (/myapp/node_modules/pexels/node_modules/node-fetch/lib/index.js:1483:11)
at emitOne (events.js:116:13)
at ClientRequest.emit (events.js:211:7)
at TLSSocket.socketErrorListener (_http_client.js:387:9)
at emitOne (events.js:116:13)
at TLSSocket.emit (events.js:211:7)
at emitErrorNT (internal/streams/destroy.js:64:8)
at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:138:11)
at process._tickDomainCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:218:9)
message: 'request to https://api.pexels.com/v1//curated?page=1&per_page=40 failed, reason: certificate has expired',
type: 'system',
errno: 'CERT_HAS_EXPIRED',
code: 'CERT_HAS_EXPIRED'
Tried removing and reinstalling the module but did not work. What worked is sometimes on uninstalling and re-installing node this worked. Sometimes npm clean cache also fixes this error. But these are intermittent fixes.