On 2020-07-17 12:12, 'Zahan M' via Beancount wrote: I also did my best to eliminate the drudgery and ended up using Plaid for my import scripts: https://github.com/zahanm/collect-beans They're a company that offers a financial API as a business model. If you sign up as a developer, you can probably make use of their "development" API for personal use for good.
I did mention I tried Plaid at some point, although admittedly buried in the wall of text. Thanks for sharing your scripts though, at one point I would have found them handy and hopefully they will be of use to someone else at some point as well. At least we are getting a good thread going now a bit about automation.
The issue is that in order to provide this API, they basically store your credentials and talk to your bank directly. They also have to maintain the brittle scraping scripts, or negotiate a direct API, but that's their business. They're pretty widely used by services that try to link your financial accounts, so they should have a reasonable security story - but I still don't love the arrangement
Yeah, these were amongst my reasons for not going that route.
and only do it because there isn't an alternative.
Well, the alternative was presented in OP. :) Pre-requisite being OFX availability of course (maybe your bank doesn't offer it). TRS-80 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/a25291c3ff436d0f83a5e09b90386663%40isnotmyreal.name.
