[Libofx-devel] Re: python script for OFX Statement Download

[John Reynolds]

cb,

Thanks for this. I expect it should be useful.

John R

------Original Message-----
From: cb <cb at wasteland.org>
Sent: Tuesday 10 February 2004 10:40 pm
To: Steve Dunham <dunham at cse.msu.edu>, gnucash-devel at lists.gnucash.org, 
libofx-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
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Subject: Re: [Libofx-devel] Re: python script for OFX Statement Download


>On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 12:45 -0500, John Reynolds wrote:
>> Steve & all interested parties,
>>
>> Thanks for this script, I believe it will prove useful to many.
>>
>> This ties into a project/feature that many want, but no one has taken up
>> as the lead contact for. In "The State of the GnuCash Project", item
>> 2.1.2.4 is "Implement GnuCash as a helper to a Web Browser" and the
>> discription outlines the idea of using GC to download OFX/QIF files from
>> websites into GC.
>>
>> It seems that this work, with that of Benoit's LibOFX and a couple others
>> who have sent in similar things, could result in this feature being
>> available in GC. What we need now is a team that will volunteer to work
>> on this and for one of them to act as the project contact.
>>
>> Any takers on the project contact position? and volunteers?
>>
>> Please respond to the list, and I will be recording names, email, ICQ
>> name, and skills (as outlined in the Introduction of "State of GC...").
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> John R.
>
>     I'd like to help but my time is limited during the weekdays.
>Speaking of that, last weekend in an hour or so I added support for
>checking/debit/savings type accounts to ofx.py- i named this one ofx-ba.
>py just to differentiate.  it's a hack.. i've never even looked at
>python before so I just followed the framework Steve had written for
>credit card statements retrieval.  I found that my credit union's OFX
>server software is quite picky but at least verbose with error
>messages ;)
>
>so my hack on Steve's work is attached, it's not like I added much  more
>than support for a new bank type. but since its a hack, you now have to
>specify more in your site declaration:
>
>sites = {
>	"MYCreditUnion": {
>                "caps": [ "SIGNON", "BASTMT" ],
>		"fid": "31337",
>		"fiorg": "MyCreditUnion",
>		"url": "https://ofx.mycreditunion.org",
>		"bankid": "21325412453",
>		}
>	}
>
>BASTMT is for debit/checking/credit, just like CCSTMT is for CC's.
>but for BASTMT, you need to define bankid which is your bank's routing
>number.
>
>And, beyond that you have to specifiy- IN CAPS!- the type of account it
>is.  for me, using the site declaration above i'd do this:
>
>ofx-ba.py MYCreditUnion user account CHECKING
>
>user and account are just like they were previously, but for BASTMT
>types you need to specifiy in your locale what kind of account it is.
>Stupid, i know, but the <ACCTTYPE> needs to be derived from somewhere
>and I didn't know where to put it since site declarations seem to be
>account-type ambiguous.
>
>so, whatever.  if you want to get at checking accts this will probably
>work, it did for the 3 people i've given it to so far.