[Bug] economy/events Error: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

[colin99d]

Note. This happened on the newest pip package build.

[kairosdojo]

The problem arises from this line:

    except Exception:
        data = investpy.news.economic_calendar(
            None,
            time_filter,
            countries_list,
            importances_list,
            categories_list,
            start_date_string,
            end_date_string,
        )

and it seems connected to investpy (alvarobartt/investpy#615).

After that block, we check whether it is empty yet the variable data is not even created.

A possible solution is to encapsulate that piece of Exception code inside another try/except block and in case it fails we initialize data as None (and then check to see that's not None to continue) but... is it the right way? Maybe we should stick with the previous version of investpy untill fixed?

[jmaslek]

The problem arises from this line:

    except Exception:
        data = investpy.news.economic_calendar(
            None,
            time_filter,
            countries_list,
            importances_list,
            categories_list,
            start_date_string,
            end_date_string,
        )

and it seems connected to investpy (alvarobartt/investpy#615).

After that block, we check whether it is empty yet the variable data is not even created.

A possible solution is to encapsulate that piece of Exception code inside another try/except block and in case it fails we initialize data as None (and then check to see that's not None to continue) but... is it the right way? Maybe we should stick with the previous version of investpy untill fixed?

I believe that the errors from investpy are due to a change in investing.com and how they are now protected bycloudflare or something, not the actual package. Using an old investpy version unfortunately won't solve this so we either need to wait or add a separate source for this.