You have the steps right. I'm trying to understand where you are stuck. You would simply write a new importer that didn't read from a file, but instead called your library, and converted the list of dicts into transactions. Have you looked at: ./examples/ingest/office/importers/utrade/utrade_csv.py and https://beancount.github.io/docs/importing_external_data.html#writing-an-importer ?
On Friday, October 9, 2020 at 4:32:39 AM UTC-7, Sam Bragg wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm completely new to beancount, but I want to use it to manage my > trading/investing activities. I have already written a library to download > transactions from my broker's API, which returns a list of dicts. > > I have looked at the beancount documentation and I can't even seem to get > started. Many of the example importers given, assume that one has a file > which they wish to import, which in my particular case is not relevant(?). > > Here's the process as I envision it: > > 1. Get a given date's transactions from my broker, using the library I > made > 2. Implement some logic to classify each transaction > (Account:[fees/PnL] etc.) > 3. Append the new transactions as directives in my beancount file > > All I am really seeking to know at the moment is how I would even get > started. Looking at beancount.ingest.importer - it needs a FileMemo > instance, but in this case I won't be reading from a file - this is where > most of my confusion is coming from. > > Truly grateful for any response received. Thank you so much for producing > this awesome software! > > Sam > -- 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/9615e5c0-6694-42d4-8886-0f7a9e096246o%40googlegroups.com.
