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

[Fabrice Gautier]

Hi,

Yes, it is also my understanding that ofx.py uses OFX
Direct Connect.

Note that there is also a Mechanize port for python,
so I'm sure those script could be ported in python.
I'm pretty bad at both perl and python, but
WWW::Mechanize had more example that the python
counterpart...

Btw, I heard that US banks are soon going to drop OFX
because of new federal regulations that require
stronger authentication.

http://www.mcse.ms/message2309357.html

If that really happens, this kind of web scrapping my
make more sense to many people.


-- Fabrice

--- Dawning Sky <the.dawning.sky at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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