bounty for online banking idea for GnuCash

[Dave (DavesTechShop.net)]

I have a need for enhanced online banking functionality and I will put out a
bounty for developing this.

My goal is to be able to get *all* my banking, loan and investment info into
GnuCash easily and *automatically*.
GnuCash and every other personal finance app have too many limitations and
frustrations related to online banking. Even Yodlee won't download data from
all my banks.

I was recently looking at Wesabe.com and I tried their open source (GPL 2)
Firefox extension for downloading/uploading financial data. I love the
Wesabe approach, and I would like to see it adapted to GnuCash. It supports
more banks and it is both flexible and reasonably secure.

It seems that a Firefox extension for GnuCash with the Wesabe functionality
could result in a killer personal finance app.

The main functionality I would like to see is described on this page at
Wesabe's site:
https://www.wesabe.com/help/user-manual/uploading

The Firefox uploader lets you have the best of both worlds. When possible it
> uses the server-to-server method. Where a bank only provides a manual
> download, the Firefox uploader still has you do it manually - but only once.
> Then it remembers what you did so that it can act like you, stepping through
> all the same steps that you used. That makes formerly manual process
> automatic from then on. Since we can automate almost any download this way,
> it means that almost all banks are supported. Like the Desktop uploader, the
> Firefox uploader encrypts your bank username and password and stores it on
> your hard drive.
>

This GnuCash fork would have to have the same "macro recording" feature
Wesabe developed plus the scheduling feature (for automatic operation) and
it would also have to trigger an automatic (or nearly automatic) import into
GnuCash.

Beyond this, maybe it would be possible to give GnuCash users the option to
also use Wesabe. (In other words, one download would be imported into
GnuCash and also uploaded to Wesabe automatically.) I would view that
(having both) as an online extension to GnuCash (as Quicken Online is to
Quicken desktop software).

Who is interested in this?