add try/except handling in access_api_data

[andrewjtdunn]

We haven't added much error handling here and we probably should given we want cron jobs to complete without error. Better to catch errors and flag in logs than to have the whole job stop.

eg:
line 188 -- r.raise_for_status(),
line 263 -- raise RuntimeError(f"Unrecoverable error; {r_json}")