import OpenSSL from datetime import datetime filePath = '/etc/letsencrypt/live/%s/fullchain.pem' % ('hello.com') x509 = OpenSSL.crypto.load_certificate(OpenSSL.crypto.FILETYPE_PEM, open(filePath, 'r').read()) expireData = x509.get_notAfter().decode('ascii') finalDate = datetime.strptime(expireData, '%Y%m%d%H%M%SZ') print x509.get_issuer().get_components()[1][1]