OpenBB-finance/OpenBB · error · OpenBBError

Error with the request: {r.status_code}

Error message

Error with the request: {r.status_code}

What it means

Raised by GovernmentUSTreasuryPricesFetchQueryParams.fetch_data when the POST to the US Treasury prices endpoint returns any HTTP status other than 200. The provider builds a form-encoded payload (priceDateDay/Month/Year, fileType=csv) and treats any non-200 as a hard failure, surfacing the raw status code in the message. This is a transport/upstream error, not a data-shape error.

Source

Thrown at openbb_platform/providers/government_us/openbb_government_us/models/treasury_prices.py:89

            "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate, br",
            "Referer": "https://treasurydirect.gov/",
            "Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
            "Origin": "https://treasurydirect.gov",
            "User-Agent": get_random_agent(),
        }

        payload = (
            f"priceDateDay={query.date.day}"  # type: ignore
            f"&priceDateMonth={query.date.month}"  # type: ignore
            f"&priceDateYear={query.date.year}"  # type: ignore
            "&fileType=csv"
            "&csv=CSV+FORMAT"
        )

        r = make_request(url=url, method="POST", headers=HEADERS, data=payload)

        if r.status_code != 200:
            raise OpenBBError("Error with the request: " + str(r.status_code))

        if r.encoding != "ISO-8859-1":
            raise OpenBBError(f"Expected ISO-8859-1 encoding but got: {r.encoding}")

        return r.content.decode("utf-8")

    @staticmethod
    def transform_data(
        query: GovernmentUSTreasuryPricesQueryParams,
        data: str,
        **kwargs: Any,
    ) -> list[GovernmentUSTreasuryPricesData]:
        """Transform the data."""
        # pylint: disable=import-outside-toplevel
        from math import isnan  # noqa
        from io import StringIO
        from pandas import Index, read_csv, to_datetime

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Solutions

  1. Retry with a known trading/business date (e.g. a weekday that is not a federal holiday).
  2. If the status is 429 or 5xx, wait and retry; the upstream service is transiently unavailable.
  3. Check network/proxy configuration if the status is 403/407 or the request never reaches the Treasury host.
  4. If a valid business date consistently fails with 404, the upstream endpoint may have changed; check for an openbb-platform update or open an issue with the status code.

Example fix

// before
obb.equity.gov.treasury_prices(date="2024-01-06").to_df()  # Saturday

// after
obb.equity.gov.treasury_prices(date="2024-01-05").to_df()  # Friday, a business day
Defensive patterns

Strategy: retry

Validate before calling

from pandas.tseries.holiday import USFederalHolidayCalendar
from pandas.tseries.offsets import CustomBusinessDay

bdays = CustomBusinessDay(calendar=USFederalHolidayCalendar())
dates = pd.date_range("2024-01-01", "2024-03-31", freq=bdays)  # only Treasury business days

Try / catch

from openbb_core.app.model.abstract.error import OpenBBError

try:
    res = obb.equity.gov.treasury_prices(date=d)
except OpenBBError as e:
    code = str(e).rsplit(":", 1)[-1].strip()
    if code in ("429", "503"):
        time.sleep(30)
        res = obb.equity.gov.treasury_prices(date=d)
    else:
        raise

Prevention

When it happens

Trigger: Calling government_us.treasury_prices with a date the endpoint cannot serve (weekend, federal holiday, future date -> often 404), Treasury site maintenance or rate limiting (429/5xx), or an outbound network/proxy failure producing a non-200 response.

Common situations: Backfill scripts iterating over calendar dates that include Saturdays/Sundays; corporate proxies or VPNs intercepting the request; upstream Treasury endpoint changes after a site redesign.

Related errors

AI-assisted analysis of OpenBB-finance/OpenBB@3e071fcc2c (2026-08-14). Data as JSON: /api/errors/0eae4a737820c988. Report an issue: GitHub.