[Robert Graham Merkel <rgmerk@mira.net>] Re: gnucash

[Dave Peticolas]

On 09 Jul 2001 19:45:40 -0400, Camm Maguire wrote:
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> Greetings!  I'm forwarding this at the suggestion of Robert Merkel.
> If anyone has any interest in this idea, please cc me directly, as I'm
> not subscribed to this list.
> 
> Take care, and thanks for your good work on this program!

Hi, so your code actually parses their webpage that would
normally be viewed by a person?

thanks,
dave


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> Camm Maguire                                          camm@enhanced.com
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> Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 16:57:30 +1000
> From: Robert Graham Merkel <rgmerk@mira.net>
> To: Camm Maguire <camm@enhanced.com>
> Subject: Re: gnucash
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> On Sat, 07 Jul 2001 00:56:18 Camm Maguire wrote:
> > 
> > Greetings!  I read your interview today.  I've been meaning to write
> > you about this for some time, but have been very busy.  I have some
> > very rudimentary but working functional C code which retrieves my
> > account information at SFNB over SSL, parses the web page with a
> > little flex/yacc, and then updates a local postgresql database.
> > Working reliably since 1997.  Seems that it could be further expanded
> > into a gnucash interface into at least this online bank without having
> > to download qif, as many banks don't appear to offer this yet.  Can
> > you use this?  It is truly rough, written quickly for my own purposes,
> > but does work.
> > 
> >
> 
> Quite possibly, but this isn't the stuff I work on directly.
> 
> Over the next development cycle, we're going to be working to give GnuCash
> a proper plugin architecture to make it easier to build small, independent
> modules to do things like this.
> 
> In any case, I would encourage to bring this up on the gnucash-devel
> mailing list at
> gnucash-devel@gnucash.org, where the people who *do* work on the online
> stuff
> will be able to comment.
> 
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