{"record":{"id":"a1376d98c51b891b","repo":"OpenBB-finance/OpenBB","slug":"error-fetching-data-from-the-eia-api-e","errorCode":null,"errorMessage":"Error fetching data from the EIA API -> {e}","messagePattern":"Error fetching data from the EIA API -> (.+?)","errorType":"exception","errorClass":"OpenBBError","httpStatus":null,"severity":"error","filePath":"openbb_platform/providers/eia/openbb_us_eia/models/short_term_energy_outlook.py","lineNumber":219,"sourceCode":"                    additional_data = additional_response.get(\"response\", {}).get(\"data\", [])  # type: ignore\n                    if not additional_data:\n                        series_id = (\n                            res.get(\"request\", {}).get(\"params\", {}).get(\"facets\", {}).get(\"seriesId\", [])  # type: ignore\n                        )\n                        masked_url = url.replace(api_key, \"API_KEY\")\n                        messages.append(\n                            f\"No additional data returned for {series_id or masked_url}\"\n                        )\n                    if additional_data:\n                        results.extend(additional_data)\n                    n_results += len(additional_data)\n                    url = url.replace(f\"&offset={offset}\", f\"&offset={offset + 5000}\")\n                    offset += 5000\n\n        try:\n            await asyncio.gather(*[get_one(url) for url in urls])\n        except Exception as e:\n            raise OpenBBError(f\"Error fetching data from the EIA API -> {e}\") from e\n\n        if not results and not messages:\n            raise EmptyDataError(\n                \"The request was returned empty with no error messages.\"\n            )\n        if not results and messages:\n            raise OpenBBError(\"\\n\".join(messages))\n        if results and messages:\n            warn(\"\\n\".join(messages))\n\n        return results\n\n    @staticmethod\n    def transform_data(\n        query: EiaShortTermEnergyOutlookQueryParams,\n        data: list[dict],\n        **kwargs: Any,\n    ) -> list[EiaShortTermEnergyOutlookData]:","sourceCodeStart":201,"sourceCodeEnd":237,"githubUrl":"https://github.com/OpenBB-finance/OpenBB/blob/3e071fcc2cd9f891cac6040ae60296dba76dab46/openbb_platform/providers/eia/openbb_us_eia/models/short_term_energy_outlook.py#L201-L237","documentation":"Extraction wrapper in the EIA Short-Term Energy Outlook model: all URL fetches run via asyncio.gather, and any exception inside a single request (HTTP error, JSON decode failure, auth error surfaced by the callback) aborts the gather and is re-raised with this prefix. The text after '->' is the underlying error string.","triggerScenarios":"EIA API v2 returning a non-2xx (403 invalid api_key, 400 malformed series_id); network timeout mid-request; the offset-pagination replace producing a bad URL; JSON decode errors when the API returns HTML/error bodies.","commonSituations":"Expired or mistyped EIA API key; querying a series_id that no longer exists in EIA's STEO API; transient eia.gov outages; rate limiting when fan-out across many URLs.","solutions":["Check the chained cause after '->' — '403' plus an api_key message means fix the key first.","Validate the EIA API key (obb.user.credentials.eia.api_key) and re-run.","Retry after a short delay for transient network/API failures.","Update the openbb-us-eia provider in case series URL construction changed."],"exampleFix":null,"handlingStrategy":"retry","validationCode":null,"typeGuard":null,"tryCatchPattern":"try:\n    res = await obb.energy.short_term_energy_outlook(provider='eia', ...)\nexcept OpenBBError as e:\n    msg = str(e)\n    if 'api_key' in msg or '403' in msg:\n        raise RuntimeError('EIA API key invalid') from e\n    await asyncio.sleep(backoff)  # transient network/5xx\n    res = await obb.energy.short_term_energy_outlook(provider='eia', ...)","preventionTips":["Validate the EIA API key once at startup instead of per request","Wrap batch STEO fetches with exponential backoff for transient eia.gov errors","Distinguish auth errors (no retry) from network errors (retry)"],"tags":["eia","steo","network","api-key","asyncio"],"backgroundTag":null,"analyzedSha":"3e071fcc2cd9f891cac6040ae60296dba76dab46","analyzedAt":"2026-08-14T23:40:48.960Z","schemaVersion":2},"datasetVersion":"2026-08-15T22:17:37.221Z"}