Thank you for sharing. Added to contrib resources index.
On Thu, Dec 26, 2024 at 4:36 PM Alexander Dunkel <alexander.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > I added an importer using the beangulp v3 interface. Find it here: > https://github.com/Sieboldianus/beancount-hibiscus-importer > > Any comments welcome! > > The beangulp interface is great and it was pretty straightforward to write > an importer.. many thanks for all the work that went into this. > > On Sunday, December 15, 2024 at 4:29:03 PM UTC+1 Alexander Dunkel wrote: > >> I am new to this group and just starting with Beancount (after reading >> the docs for 2+ years!). >> >> After looking at the current state, I decided to jump right in with v3. >> My main focus at the moment is entry. I have about 20+ bank accounts and >> about 200 transactions a month, many of which are automated or recurring, >> so it really makes no sense to enter them manually. Although I understand >> the idea behind the manual transaction entry philosophy. >> >> Anyway, I am in Germany and there is a fairly widely used OSS software >> for collecting data from banks: Hibiscus (willuhn.de/products/hibiscus/). >> Hibiscus supports 90% of my bank APIs and I use it to retrieve transactions >> (but also to make transactions, change recurring payments, etc.). A very >> nice tool that I plan to continue using. >> >> My fallback strategy for beancount ingestion would be the following: >> 1. Hibiscus H2 Database >> 2. OFXget >> 3. Manual CSV Download >> (4. PDF parsing) >> >> I am starting with the beangulp ingestion from the H2 Database. >> >> My question: I can use jaydebeapi to directly connect to the Hibiscus H2 >> DB from Python. I think this would be a single importer in beangulp, >> correct? I don't need bean-identify, because I know that I want to connect >> to the H2 DB already. Given the Beangulp Example ( >> https://github.com/beancount/beangulp/tree/master/examples), where would >> I best add the hook for the DB-connect - perhaps >> in process_extracted_entries()? >> >> Also, I do not add categories (re: beancount accounts) to transactions in >> Hibiscus. This would be a manual step of assigning categories. I am >> wondering if this should be an ad hoc step once the data is in the >> beancount ledger, or if I should do it as part of the beangulp ingestion >> process. Are there any conventions for preferring one over the other? >> >> Many thanks, Alex >> > -- > 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 visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/bfeec1ad-1aaa-49db-bb8b-6dd2e6b7a52bn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/bfeec1ad-1aaa-49db-bb8b-6dd2e6b7a52bn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAK21%2BhMzd%2B8u%3DJPJR9ycu1O5xiG9qh%3D%2BRjv-5%2BA5o2VXRnDpdw%40mail.gmail.com.
