OpenBB-finance/OpenBB · error · EmptyDataError

The request returned empty.

Error message

The request returned empty.

What it means

EmptyDataError from EconDbGdpRealFetcher.aextract_data: every per-country request ran (in chunks of 6 concurrent tasks) but none yielded a non-empty final DataFrame, so results stays empty. The API answered but returned no parseable real-GDP rows for any requested country.

Source

Thrown at openbb_platform/providers/econdb/openbb_econdb/models/gdp_real.py:182

            final_df = concat(
                [gdp, gdp_qoq, gdp_yoy],
                axis=1,
            )
            if final_df.empty:
                warn(f"Error: No data returned for {_country}.")
            if not final_df.empty:
                results.extend(
                    final_df.reset_index()
                    .rename(columns={"Country": "country"})
                    .to_dict(orient="records")
                )

        chunks = [country[i : i + 6] for i in range(0, len(country), 6)]
        for chunk in chunks:
            await asyncio.gather(*[get_one_country(c) for c in chunk])

        if not results:
            raise EmptyDataError("The request returned empty.")

        return results

    @staticmethod
    def transform_data(
        query: EconDbGdpRealQueryParams,
        data: list[dict],
        **kwargs,
    ) -> list[EconDbGdpRealData]:
        """Transform the data."""
        # pylint: disable=import-outside-toplevel
        from pandas import DataFrame, to_datetime

        df = DataFrame(data)

        if query.start_date:
            df = df[to_datetime(df["date"]) >= to_datetime(query.start_date)]
        if query.end_date:

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Solutions

1. Test with country='us' to verify the endpoint works at all.
2. Query one country at a time to find which ones return nothing.
3. Retry later if all countries suddenly return empty (upstream issue).
4. Report to the openbb-econdb maintainers if a previously working country persistently fails.

from openbb_core.provider.utils.errors import EmptyDataError
try:
    res = obb.economy.gdp_real(provider='econdb', country=','.join(batch))
except EmptyDataError:
    if len(batch) == 1:
        logger.warning(f'econdb has no real GDP for {batch[0]}; skipping')
    else:
        for c in batch:  # bisect to find the failing country
            ...

When it happens

Trigger: economy.gdp_real(provider='econdb', country=...) with countries lacking real GDP series on EconDB, or an upstream response-format change making every per-country parse produce an empty final_df.

Common situations: Small/micro states with no quarterly real GDP series; a batch request where every country in the batch is unsupported; upstream EconDB outage returning empty payloads.

Related errors

• The request returned empty.
• The request was returned empty.
• There was an error fetching the data.
• The request returned empty.
• Error: The no data was found for the supplied symbols and co

AI-assisted analysis of OpenBB-finance/OpenBB@3e071fcc2c (2026-08-14). Data as JSON: /api/errors/13962b8c0ac1001f. Report an issue: GitHub.