OFX

[Benoit Grégoire]

> > There is: OFX.  Support for OFX is also in the upcoming gnucash 1.8.
> > which will also, to my knowledge, be the first free financial software
> > supporting OFX.   Unfortunately, most banks are very shy of opening up
> > their ofx servers, a fact which prevented me from implementing
> > bidirectionnal OFX communication.  So ofx is mostly a bank, credit card
> > and investment statement download kind of thing for now.
>
> Downloading statements is the most important use.
>
> Any idea how you find out how to do even this? Through my banks
> web site I can manually grab .qfx files but have not found any
> information on doing this automatically. None of my credit cards even
> give me the option of downloading statement information in any
> standard format -- other than html. I really hate having to enter all
> those CC transactions by hand every month.

Unfortunately, unless your bank allow direct connection (most don't aparently) 
the way to grab the ofx/qfx files is specific to the bank.