Inserting transactions into Gnucash from a script?

[Derek Atkins]

inserting into XML directly would be a Bad Idea (TM), IMHO..  I know
of no way to really do this "automatically" -- generaly you need to
import via to GUI to make sure your account are match properly.  For
example, how do you insert a transaction that has a Payee of "xxxyyyzzz"
into your chart of accounts?  You need to map xxxyyyzzz to some
gnucash account, but there is no way to do that automatically....

So, the importers require a UI.

-derek

Brian <stop_spam at shaw.ca> writes:

> Michael, 
> 
> I have been pondering this lately, however I had no idea how to go about doing it.  
> I assumed to import to GNUcash, a script would have to insert it into the XML file,
> with appropiate XML tags. Would you mind posting your script when you have it working?
> 
> 
> > 
> > I've written a Perl script to pull a list of new transactions from my
> > bank.  I'd like to run this nightly under cron and push the
> > transactions into Gnucash from the script, but I can't find any
> > documentation on a Perl/Guile/etc API or utility that would do an
> > import of data from outside the GUI.  Any ideas?
> 
> Brian
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