Online banking

[Paul Tirk]

Hi,

no, I know that it's not a website scraper but in fact I want to program 
one ;) And I assume the developer of AqBanking will not just add any set 
of api-calls/https-requests for every other bank to his library.

So I was thinking about a generic interface in Gnucash to simplify 
things because I also think it would be beneficial for future 
development to not depend completely and only on AqBanking like it is 
now because it seems that (at least in Europe) the trend is going away 
from standards (except HBCI in Germany) towards bank-specific APIs (most 
of them are https-requests sent).

Regards,

Paul



Am 27.09.2015 20:55, schrieb Derek Atkins:
> Hi,
> 
> Yes, the GnuCash AqB backend is tied to AqB.  However...
> 
> AqBanking is licensed under the GPL, and already has multiple modules 
> that
> implement HBCI, OFX, OFX-DC, MT940, CSV, ...
> 
> So, why do you feel that you couldn't add a new module to that?
> 
> Do you know what online banking protocol your bank supports?  Or do you
> have the mistaken impression that it's a website scraper?
> 
> -derek
> 
> On Sun, September 27, 2015 2:23 pm, Paul Tirk wrote:
>> Hello!
>> 
>> I was thinking about adding online banking support for a bank which 
>> has
>> no HBCI (and is not supported by AqBanking). After some time browsing
>> the source of gnucash and AqBanking I realized that the online banking
>> functionality of gnucash is tightly coupled to AqBanking which in turn
>> has a restricted license and it actually doesn't look easy to add
>> different banks.
>> 
>> Are there plans on a clean online banking API in gnucash which could
>> enable developers to include different banking protocols? If not I 
>> would
>> be interested in contributing but I have no idea where to start. Could
>> somebody maybe give me a hint about this?
>> 
>> My idea would be: the current menu entries for online banking are 
>> fine,
>> it would just need a general user/account setup which could allow the
>> current AqBanking accounts as well as other "plugins/modules" which 
>> can
>> then be triggered as it is working right now with only AqBanking.
>> 
>> I hope I made myself clear and thanks in advance,
>> 
>> Paul
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