OpenBB-finance/OpenBB · warning · EmptyDataError

No data was returned.

Error message

No data was returned.

What it means

EmptyDataError raised in IntrinioEtfInfoFetcher after all per-symbol requests complete: each callback only warns ('Symbol Error: ... for <symbol>') on error responses and appends nothing, so if every symbol errored, 'results' stays empty and this error is raised.

Source

Thrown at openbb_platform/providers/intrinio/openbb_intrinio/models/etf_info.py:641

            symbol + ":US" if ":" not in symbol else symbol for symbol in symbols
        ]
        urls = [f"{base_url}{symbol}?api_key={api_key}" for symbol in symbols]

        results = []

        async def response_callback(response, _):
            """Response callback."""
            result = await response.json()
            if "error" in result:
                warn(f"Symbol Error: {result['error']} for {response.url.parts[-1]}")
                return
            _ = result.pop("messages", None)
            results.append(result)

        await amake_requests(urls, response_callback, **kwargs)  # type: ignore

        if not results:
            raise EmptyDataError("No data was returned.")

        return sorted(
            results,
            key=(lambda item: (symbols.index(item.get("figi_ticker", len(symbols))))),
        )

    @staticmethod
    def transform_data(
        query: IntrinioEtfInfoQueryParams,
        data: list[dict],
        **kwargs: Any,
    ) -> list[IntrinioEtfInfoData]:
        """Transform data."""
        return [IntrinioEtfInfoData.model_validate(d) for d in data]

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Solutions

1. Check captured warnings — they contain the per-symbol Intrinio error that explains the empty result
2. Validate/refresh the ticker list against obb.etf.search(provider='intrinio') before calling
3. Enable warnings display in production jobs (don't run with -W ignore) so the per-symbol cause is visible

Example fix

import warnings
from openbb_core.provider.utils.errors import EmptyDataError

with warnings.catch_warnings(record=True) as w:
    warnings.simplefilter("always")
    try:
        res = obb.etf.info(provider="intrinio", symbol="BAD1,BAD2")
    except EmptyDataError:
        for warning in w:
            print(warning.message)  # per-symbol Intrinio error text

def valid_etf_symbols(symbols: list[str], known: set[str]) -> list[str]:
    """Filter to symbols confirmed via etf.search to avoid all-error batches."""
    return [s for s in symbols if s.upper() in known]

from openbb_core.provider.utils.errors import EmptyDataError

import warnings
from openbb_core.provider.utils.errors import EmptyDataError

with warnings.catch_warnings(record=True) as caught:
    warnings.simplefilter("always")
    try:
        res = await obb.etf.info(provider="intrinio", symbol=",".join(syms))
    except EmptyDataError:
        reasons = [str(w.message) for w in caught]  # per-symbol Intrinio errors
        raise RuntimeError(f"all symbols failed: {reasons}") from None

When it happens

Trigger: Calling etf.info / etf.search metadata with only invalid symbols; the warnings module output shows each individual failure reason (e.g. 'Symbol Error: ... for XYZ') while the final exception says only 'No data was returned.'.

Common situations: Bulk jobs where a stale ticker list contains symbols Intrinio doesn't recognize; warnings suppressed (python -W ignore or logging config) so users see only the opaque final error; one bad symbol among many still succeeds — only all-bad raises.

Related errors

• No holdings were found for {query.symbol}, and the response
• No data was returned.
• No data found.
• No data found for the given symbols.
• No presentation hierarchies found for dataflow '{dataflow_id

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