automagic web importing and filtering

[Derek Atkins]

Olaf Faaland <ofaaland at alamedanet.net> writes:

> My planned next step, after fixing a preferences bug, is to look into the 
> scheme code that already exists for slurping in QIF files to figure out how 
> to re-use it.  If QIF files are what you are dealing with, then perhaps we 
> could work on this QIF import re-write together.

Indeed, hooking to qif-io-core scheme code to a UI would be a MAJOR
improvement in QIF importing UIs.  OTOH, I do think there are probably
a few architectural flaws in the new importer UI that we'll have to
fix or work around (and probably some qif-specific checks that we'll
need to do).

For example, we'll need a specific Category -> GNC-Account UI, and
we'll probably need a UI to let the user choose a date format if the
dates are ambiguous (which happens more often than I'd care to think).

That notwithstanding ....    EXCELLENT!!!  I'm glad that someone else
has started working on it.  And if I can help you in any way, please
let me know!  Or come to #gnucash and we can discuss issues there....

Good Luck.

-derek

> If you are using some other type of file, I think you'll find the generic 
> importer structure that Benoit wrote can do everything except the parsing for 
> you, so writing an importer is quite easy.
> 
> -Olaf
> 
> On Thursday 22 May 2003 08:52 am, Benoit Grégoire wrote:
> > On May 12, 2003 01:11 pm, nmarshall wrote:
> > > hi all,
> > >
> > > really like gnucash, but i got an itch an really need to fix it.
> > >
> > > as an good perl programer, im lazy. so i want my online bankstatments to
> > > automagicly be downloaded and entered into gnucash.
> > > i tryed messing with quicken files but as left with a feeling that it
> > > could be done better. that is, i know what entrys are me buying gas and
> > > food, why should i have to filter this every time i inport this data..
> > >
> > > really want a automagic fix.
> > >
> > > so i looked for a websluping solution, as i love perl im using
> > > WWW::Mechanize.
> > > now i need to know where to put this data?
> > >  im guessing in the Import module. but would like some clues.
> >
> > Indeed, you'll need to use the import module, which will offer you
> > transaction matching services (It should be able to automagically learn
> > when it is you buying food and you buying gas).
> >
> > I am not clear however as to the format of the data you are pulling down. 
> > QIF files?  Anyhow, I'll be happy to help you, but I need more information
> > on what exactly you are trying to do.  Are you trying to feed data directly
> > into GnuCash, or only to download a file?
> 
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