jackwener/OpenCLI · error · CommandExecutionError

Failed to fetch quote for ${symbol}

Error message

Failed to fetch quote for ${symbol}

What it means

The yahoo-finance quote command tries two strategies inside the page: the v8 chart API and DOM scraping of the quote page ([data-testid="qsp-price"]). If both fail, the page.evaluate returns {error: 'Could not fetch quote for SYM'} (or null) and the wrapper throws CommandExecutionError. The library throws this because it could not obtain any price data for the requested ticker — usually the symbol does not exist, was delisted, or Yahoo served a page without the expected markup.

Source

Thrown at clis/yahoo-finance/quote.js:71

        const titleEl = document.querySelector('title');
        const priceEl = document.querySelector('[data-testid="qsp-price"]');
        const changeEl = document.querySelector('[data-testid="qsp-price-change"]');
        const changePctEl = document.querySelector('[data-testid="qsp-price-change-percent"]');
        if (priceEl) {
          return {
            symbol: sym,
            name: titleEl ? titleEl.textContent.split('(')[0].trim() : sym,
            price: priceEl.textContent.replace(/,/g, ''),
            change: changeEl ? changeEl.textContent : null,
            changePercent: changePctEl ? changePctEl.textContent : null,
            open: null, high: null, low: null, volume: null, marketCap: null,
          };
        }
        return {error: 'Could not fetch quote for ' + sym};
      })()
    `);
        if (!data || data.error)
            throw new CommandExecutionError(data?.error || `Failed to fetch quote for ${symbol}`);
        return [data];
    },
});

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Solutions

1. Verify the ticker symbol exists on finance.yahoo.com and retry with the correct symbol
2. Open the finance.yahoo.com quote page in the CLI browser and complete any consent/captcha interstitial, then retry
3. Retry later if Yahoo rate-limited the v8 chart API (429)
4. If the DOM selectors are outdated, update the [data-testid=...] selectors to Yahoo's current markup

Example fix

// before
await page.goto(`https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/${symbol}/`);
const data = await page.evaluate(...); // both strategies fail for bad symbol
// after (pre-validate symbol via chart API status)
const resp = await fetch(`https://query1.finance.yahoo.com/v8/finance/chart/${symbol}?interval=1d&range=1d`);
if (resp.status === 404) throw new CommandExecutionError(`Unknown symbol: ${symbol}`);

if (!/^[A-Z0-9.\-]{1,10}$/i.test(symbol)) throw new Error(`Invalid ticker format: ${symbol}`);

function isQuoteData(d) { return d != null && typeof d === 'object' && !('error' in d) && d.price != null; }

try {
  const [quote] = await yahooQuote(symbol);
} catch (e) {
  if (e instanceof CommandExecutionError && e.message.includes('fetch quote')) {
    return { error: 'QUOTE_UNAVAILABLE', symbol, hint: 'Verify the ticker exists on finance.yahoo.com' };
  }
  throw e;
}

When it happens

Trigger: Calling `yahoo-finance quote <SYMBOL>` where the v8 chart API returns non-ok or empty chart.result AND the quote page has no qsp-price element — invalid/delisted ticker, Yahoo consent/anti-bot page, or Yahoo DOM redesign breaking the selectors.

Common situations: Typo in ticker symbol (e.g. lowercase handled, but nonexistent like 'ZZZZZ'); delisted or OTC symbol not on Yahoo; Yahoo showing GDPR/consent interstitial; Yahoo changed their page markup so data-testid selectors no longer match; query1 API blocked (429).

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