Online banking

[Christian Stimming]

Dear Paul,

I don't think it is possible or useful to think of "yet another generic API". 
Instead, I would suggest the API of aqbanking is indeed the 4th or 5th 
iteration on building an API from the application to online banking functions. 
Also, I would strongly suggest against programming a website scraper - it will 
give you very little gain for very large effort. If your bank doesn't have 
anything else besides a website, in fact the easiest solution is to find a 
different bank that has some standard protocol such as OFX. Sorry for that.

Regards,

Christian

Am Montag, 28. September 2015, 00:24:02 schrieb 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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