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

[Dawning Sky]

On 11/20/06, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> How is this different than "ofx.py"?   (Except that it's in PERL?)
>

I suppose those Perl scripts actually log in to your bank's web
account and download .ofx files, while ofx.py uses the ofx server.

DS

> -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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