From 4f5d1cf1b46a6d20a500fdf5f8323705ce34e178 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Genson <71845777+michael-genson@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2026 20:13:23 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] fix: Disable SSL verify when scraping sites for recipe data
 (#7356)

---
 mealie/services/scraper/scraper_strategies.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mealie/services/scraper/scraper_strategies.py b/mealie/services/scraper/scraper_strategies.py
index 924bb1b4c..1a97b4198 100644
--- a/mealie/services/scraper/scraper_strategies.py
+++ b/mealie/services/scraper/scraper_strategies.py
@@ -76,7 +76,10 @@ async def safe_scrape_html(url: str) -> str:
         html_bytes = b""
         response = None
 
-        transport = safehttp.AsyncSafeTransport(impersonate=impersonation)
+        transport = safehttp.AsyncSafeTransport(
+            impersonate=impersonation,
+            verify=False,  # disable SSL verification since we can handle untrusted data and some sites don't have certs
+        )
         async with AsyncClient(transport=transport) as client:
             async with client.stream(
                 "GET",