Downloading Discover Card Acct. Data

[David J. Bakeman]

>Jerry Smith wrote:
> > Discover Card only allows downloads initiated through Quicken and
> > Money.  Has anybody come up with a work-around for downloading
> > Discover Card data? I have Quicken but prefer to use Gnucash. I
> > suppose I can download to Quicken and then export/import to Gnucash
> > but that's a nuisance. Jerry
>
>A good way to use online banking downloads is with with OFX files, also
>known by Quicken users as web-connect or direct-connect.  Use the script
>ofx.py at http://jongsma.org/gc/ to download the OFX file, then import
>it into gnucash.  The script already has the server information for
>Discover, so you should be set.  This method can be used for any
>financial institution for which the OFX server is known, and I
>understand the latest gnucash builds enable downloading directly from
>within the program.
>
>For some financial institutions, the OFX server details may not be
>known, or available information may be outdated.  This used to be the
>case, anyway.  Try the other scripts at the same site to get the server
>information.  I had no luck with the download scripts, or rather, I had
>luck downloading the XML files but they all seemed to be encrypted.
>
>If you can't find the information for a financial institution, there is
>still another option.  Check if you can login to the financial
>institution website to get an OFX file.  If you find you can, you can
>use a script that performs this manual web-browsing process.  This has
>the nice side benefit that you can just have it store your monthly
>statements in HTML or PDF or whatever, as well.
>
>I have accumulated several scripts to automatically login to a website
>and download OFX and/or monthly statements, for various institutions
>(Bank of America, Verizon, SBC, Charter Communications, US Bank, etc.) If
>anyone wants them, let me know, I'll throw them up on a web site.
>
>      ----Jon



I don't know anything about OFX and only a little about python.  I just
tried the ofx.py script and the output it gets back indicates that "Client
application or version is not supported by this server.".  So can I edit
the ofx.py script to have it spoof Quicken?

Thanks