Online banking

[John Ralls]

> On Sep 27, 2015, at 3:24 PM, Paul Tirk <paultirk at paultirk.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> no, I know that it's not a website scraper but in fact I want to program one ;) And I assume the developer of AqBanking will not just add any set of api-calls/https-requests for every other bank to his library.
> 
> So I was thinking about a generic interface in Gnucash to simplify things because I also think it would be beneficial for future development to not depend completely and only on AqBanking like it is now because it seems that (at least in Europe) the trend is going away from standards (except HBCI in Germany) towards bank-specific APIs (most of them are https-requests sent).

Paul,

Take a look at the import/export API, src/import-export. You’ve probably also noticed that we already have a dependency on WebKitGtk that should work for retrieval and DOM parsing. Good luck.

Regards,
John Ralls