OpenBB-finance/OpenBB · error · ValueError

No data was found in the DataFrame.

Error message

No data was found in the DataFrame.

What it means

The price-performance bar chart converts the OBBject results to a DataFrame indexed by symbol and checks row count; zero rows means the provider returned no performance data at all, and the ValueError 'No data was found in the DataFrame.' is raised before any column matching occurs.

Source

Thrown at openbb_platform/obbject_extensions/charting/openbb_charting/charts/price_performance.py:51

        "three_month",
        "six_month",
        "ytd",
        "one_year",
        "two_year",
        "three_year",
        "four_year",
        "five_year",
    ]

    df = DataFrame()
    chart_df = DataFrame()

    if "symbol" in data.columns:
        data = data.set_index("symbol")
    chart_cols = []

    if len(data) == 0:
        raise ValueError("No data was found in the DataFrame.")

    data = data.drop_duplicates(keep="first")

    for col in cols:
        if col in data.columns and data[col].notnull().any():
            df[col.replace("_", " ").title() if col != "ytd" else col.upper()] = data[
                col
            ].apply(lambda x: round(x * 100, 4) if x is not None else None)

    if df.empty:
        raise ValueError(f"No columns matching, {cols}, were found in the data.")

    chart_df = df.T
    chart_cols = chart_df.columns.to_list()

    if "limit" in kwargs and isinstance(kwargs.get("limit"), int):
        limit = kwargs.pop("limit", 10)
        chart_df = chart_df.head(limit)  # type: ignore

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Solutions

1. Check res.results is non-empty before charting
2. Verify the symbols are valid and the provider has coverage (try obb.equity.price.price_performance(symbol='AAPL') alone)
3. Retry after confirming provider status/credentials in the user account

Example fix

# before
res = obb.equity.price.price_performance(symbol='BADTICKER')
res.charting()

# after
res = obb.equity.price.price_performance(symbol='AAPL')
assert res.results, 'no performance data returned'
res.charting()

res = obb.equity.price.price_performance(symbol=symbols)
assert res.results, 'provider returned no performance rows'

def has_rows(res) -> bool:
    return bool(res.results) and len(res.to_df()) > 0

try:
    res.charting()
except ValueError as e:
    if 'No data was found' in str(e):
        logging.warning('empty price-performance payload for %s', symbols)

When it happens

Trigger: Calling chart/equity/price/price_performance (or .charting() on a price-performance result) when the provider returned zero symbols; empty symbol list passed to the endpoint; provider outage returning an empty payload.

Common situations: Batch requests where all tickers were invalid/delisted; market-data API quota exhausted returning empty bodies; upstream provider errors swallowed into empty results.

Related errors

• Error: No data to plot.
• Error: No data to plot.
• No columns matching, {cols}, were found in the data.
• OBBject Extension Error -> An OBBject extension that acts
• [Empty] -> {e}

AI-assisted analysis of OpenBB-finance/OpenBB@3e071fcc2c (2026-08-14). Data as JSON: /api/errors/a3a9440421b1f7cf. Report an issue: GitHub.