Unable to get update information Mac High Sierra about blenderupdater HOT 13 CLOSED

        # Check for new version on github
        try:
            Appupdate = requests.get("https://api.github.com/repos/overmindstudios/BlenderUpdater/releases/latest").text
            logger.info('Getting update info - success')
            UpdateData = json.loads(Appupdate)
            applatestversion = UpdateData['tag_name']
            logger.info('Version found online: ' + UpdateData['tag_name'])
            if StrictVersion(applatestversion) > StrictVersion(appversion):
                logger.info('Newer version found on Github')
                self.btn_newVersion.clicked.connect(self.getAppUpdate)
                self.btn_newVersion.setStyleSheet('background: rgb(73, 50, 20)')
                self.btn_newVersion.show()
        except Exception:
            QtWidgets.QMessageBox.critical(None, "Error", "Unable to get Github update information" )
            logger.error('Unable to get update information from GitHub')

$ python3 BlenderUpdater.py
BlenderUpdater.py:141: SyntaxWarning: name 'appversion' is used prior to global declaration
  global appversion
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "BlenderUpdater.py", line 667, in <module>
    main()
  File "BlenderUpdater.py", line 659, in main
    window = BlenderUpdater()
  File "BlenderUpdater.py", line 209, in __init__
    UpdateData = json.loads(Appupdate)
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'Appupdate' referenced before assignment

INFO 2018-04-04 14:10:20,596 - Running version 1.9
DEBUG 2018-04-04 14:10:20,596 - Constructing UI
DEBUG 2018-04-04 14:10:20,656 - No previous config found
ERROR 2018-04-04 14:10:23,332 - Unable to get update information from GitHub

>>> import requests
>>> import urllib.request
>>> import urllib.parse
>>> a = urllib.request.urlopen('https://api.github.com/repos/overmindstudios/BlenderUpdater/releases/latest').read().decode('utf-8')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 1240, in do_open
    h.request(req.get_method(), req.selector, req.data, headers)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/http/client.py", line 1083, in request
    self._send_request(method, url, body, headers)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/http/client.py", line 1128, in _send_request
    self.endheaders(body)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/http/client.py", line 1079, in endheaders
    self._send_output(message_body)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/http/client.py", line 911, in _send_output
    self.send(msg)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/http/client.py", line 854, in send
    self.connect()
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/http/client.py", line 1237, in connect
    server_hostname=server_hostname)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/ssl.py", line 376, in wrap_socket
    _context=self)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/ssl.py", line 747, in __init__
    self.do_handshake()
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/ssl.py", line 983, in do_handshake
    self._sslobj.do_handshake()
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/ssl.py", line 628, in do_handshake
    self._sslobj.do_handshake()
ssl.SSLError: [SSL: TLSV1_ALERT_PROTOCOL_VERSION] tlsv1 alert protocol version (_ssl.c:645)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 162, in urlopen
    return opener.open(url, data, timeout)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 465, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 483, in _open
    '_open', req)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 443, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 1283, in https_open
    context=self._context, check_hostname=self._check_hostname)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 1242, in do_open
    raise URLError(err)
urllib.error.URLError: <urlopen error [SSL: TLSV1_ALERT_PROTOCOL_VERSION] tlsv1 alert protocol version (_ssl.c:645)>