Online Banking.... the web-scrapping way...

[Derek Atkins]

How is this different than "ofx.py"?   (Except that it's in PERL?)

-derek

Quoting Fabrice Gautier <droopycom at yahoo.com>:

> Hi,
>
> I was trying to setup OFX Direct Connect with my bank
> (WellsFargo) when I realized that (If i'm not
> mistaken) you actually have to pay Wells Fargo in
> order to get OFX Direct connect.
>
> So currently my online banking is limited to going to
> the Wells Fargo website, downloading the OFX files and
> importing in gnucash (this works well enough)
>
> I have now created a Perl script (based on
> WWW::Mechanize) that will go and download the the OFX
> file for me. This is very primitive for now but I'm
> wondering if there would be anyway to integrate that
> kind of script into Gnucash.
>
> There is a bunch of perl modules on CSPAN that are
> doing the same thing for a number of banks, and that
> would certainly deserve to be integrated with Gnucash.
>
> What would be the way to integrate such web-scrapping
> scripts with gnucash?
>
> Warning: I'm not really willing (due to lack fo free
> time) to spend a lot of time on this, but I'm willing
> to contribute my scripts for wells fargo and other
> banks I use, and if there is someone out there already
> thinking about that kind of things, I'll be happy to
> know.
>
> Thank you.
>
>
>
>
>
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