OpenBB-finance/OpenBB · error · OpenBBError

Failed to fetch data from ECB. -> Status Code: {response.sta

Error message

Failed to fetch data from ECB. -> Status Code: {response.status_code}

What it means

Raised by the ECB currency-reference-rates fetcher when GET https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/eurofxref/eurofxref-daily.xml returns any status other than 200. The daily XML is the sole source for this endpoint, so a non-200 means the feed itself was unreachable, blocked, or moved.

Source

Thrown at openbb_platform/providers/ecb/openbb_ecb/models/currency_reference_rates.py:52

        """Transform query."""
        return ECBCurrencyReferenceRatesQueryParams(**params)

    @staticmethod
    def extract_data(
        query: ECBCurrencyReferenceRatesQueryParams,
        credentials: dict[str, str] | None,
        **kwargs: Any,
    ) -> dict:
        """Extract the raw data from the ECB website."""
        # pylint: disable=import-outside-toplevel
        import xmltodict
        from openbb_core.provider.utils.helpers import make_request

        results = {}
        url = "https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/eurofxref/eurofxref-daily.xml"
        response = make_request(url)
        if response.status_code != 200:
            raise OpenBBError(
                "Failed to fetch data from ECB."
                + f" -> Status Code: {response.status_code}"
            )
        data = xmltodict.parse(response.content)
        rates_data = data["gesmes:Envelope"]["Cube"]["Cube"]["Cube"]
        rates = {d["@currency"]: d["@rate"] for d in rates_data}
        results["date"] = data["gesmes:Envelope"]["Cube"]["Cube"]["@time"]
        results["EUR"] = 1
        results.update(rates)

        return results

    @staticmethod
    def transform_data(
        query: ECBCurrencyReferenceRatesQueryParams, data: dict, **kwargs: Any
    ) -> ECBCurrencyReferenceRatesData:
        """Transform data."""
        return ECBCurrencyReferenceRatesData.model_validate(data)

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Solutions

1. Retry after a short backoff — 403/5xx from ECB is often transient rate-limiting.
2. Cache the daily file yourself: it changes once per day (~16:00 CET), so fetch at most daily instead of per-request.
3. Check https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/eurofxref/eurofxref-daily.xml in a browser/curl from the same machine to confirm reachability and the actual status code.
4. If behind a proxy, set HTTPS_PROXY env var so make_request goes through it; if blocked, switch provider or mirror the XML.

Example fix

# before
rates = obb.currency.reference_rates(provider="ecb")

# after
import time
from openbb_core.provider.utils.errors import OpenBBError
for attempt in range(3):
    try:
        rates = obb.currency.reference_rates(provider="ecb")
        break
    except OpenBBError as e:
        if "Status Code" in str(e) and attempt < 2:
            time.sleep(2 ** attempt)
            continue
        raise

import requests

def ecb_fx_feed_reachable() -> bool:
    return requests.get("https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/eurofxref/eurofxref-daily.xml", timeout=10).status_code == 200

import time
from openbb_core.provider.utils.errors import OpenBBError
for attempt in range(4):
    try:
        rates = obb.currency.reference_rates(provider="ecb")
        break
    except OpenBBError as e:
        if "Status Code" in str(e) and attempt < 3:
            time.sleep(2 ** attempt)
            continue
        raise

When it happens

Trigger: Calling obb.currency.reference_rates(provider="ecb") while ecb.europa.eu returns 403 (bot-blocking/rate-limiting from cloud egress IPs), 5xx during ECB site maintenance, or a proxy/firewall in the environment returning 407/502.

Common situations: CI runners and containers whose shared IPs get throttled by the ECB WAF; corporate proxies that intercept the request; transient ECB outages; running bulk jobs that refresh the daily rates many times per hour.

Related errors

• Congress.gov API rate limit exceeded. Please wait a moment a
• Error fetching data: {e}
• Failed to get instruments -> {e.__class__.__name__}: {e}
• Invalid JSON response from ECB
• e

AI-assisted analysis of OpenBB-finance/OpenBB@3e071fcc2c (2026-08-14). Data as JSON: /api/errors/c0d8ae803f44dc14. Report an issue: GitHub.