OpenBB-finance/OpenBB · error · OpenBBError

Error in Intrinio request -> {e} -> {symbols}

Error message

Error in Intrinio request -> {e} -> {symbols}

What it means

Catch-all OpenBBError around the per-symbol forward P/E branch. After gather with return_exceptions=True, any non-Unauthorized/non-OpenBB exception re-raised during result inspection, or the EmptyDataError itself, gets re-wrapped with the failing symbol list. Note the except Exception clause also swallows the clearer EmptyDataError from the same try block, double-wrapping it as 'Error in Intrinio request -> ... empty ... -> symbols'.

Source

Thrown at openbb_platform/providers/intrinio/openbb_intrinio/models/forward_pe_estimates.py:117

        if symbols:
            try:
                gather_results = await asyncio.gather(
                    *[get_one(symbol) for symbol in symbols], return_exceptions=True
                )

                for result in gather_results:
                    if isinstance(result, UnauthorizedError):
                        raise result
                    if isinstance(result, OpenBBError):
                        raise result

                if not results:
                    raise EmptyDataError(
                        f"There were no results found for any of the given symbols. -> {symbols}"
                    )
                return results
            except Exception as e:
                raise OpenBBError(
                    f"Error in Intrinio request -> {e} -> {symbols}"
                ) from e

        async def fetch_callback(response, session):
            """Use callback for pagination."""
            data = await response.json()
            error = data.get("error", None)

            if error:
                message = data.get("message", "")
                if "api key" in message.lower() or "view this data" in error.lower():
                    raise UnauthorizedError(
                        f"Unauthorized Intrinio request -> {message} -> {error}"
                    )
                raise OpenBBError(f"Error: {error} -> {message}")

            forward_pe = data.get("forward_pe")

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Solutions

1. Parse the innermost exception text after the first '->' to find the true cause.
2. If the inner message is about empty results, treat it as a coverage problem (see error 685), not a request error.
3. For timeouts, reduce the symbol batch size or increase timeout kwargs.
4. Report the over-broad except as a library issue - EmptyDataError should propagate unwrapped.

from openbb_core.provider.exceptions import OpenBBError
try:
    res = obb.equity.estimates.forward_pe(symbol=syms, provider='intrinio')
except OpenBBError as e:
    inner = str(e).split('->')[-2] if '->' in str(e) else str(e)
    if 'empty' in inner.lower() or 'no results' in inner.lower():
        handle_no_coverage(syms)
    else:
        raise

When it happens

Trigger: Any exception escaping the per-symbol gather loop of equity/estimates/forward_pe with provider=intrinio: an unexpected exception type in gather_results (e.g. TimeoutError, JSONDecodeError), or the EmptyDataError raised when no symbol yielded data being caught here and re-wrapped.

Common situations: Timeouts on multi-symbol batches; the misleading double-wrapped message making an empty-result case look like a request failure; code updates to exception types not covered by the isinstance checks.

Related errors

• Error: {error} -> {message}
• {e}
• Error: {error} -> {message}
• Error: {error} -> {message}
• No results were found. -> {query.symbol}

AI-assisted analysis of OpenBB-finance/OpenBB@3e071fcc2c (2026-08-14). Data as JSON: /api/errors/73dc14360d1cef64. Report an issue: GitHub.