way to download account statements from bank, easily?

[Derek Atkins]

Someone wrote (and posted a link to) a python script that would use
OFX Direct Connect to obtain OFX transactions from your bank.  This is
probably better than using wget to walk through the bank's web pages.

-derek

Brian <b_rose at shaw.ca> writes:

> Hi,
> First, a thank you to all who have helped make Gnucash great.  Now, I
> would like to create/download a script that uses wget or an
> alternative to download the qfx files from my banking websites.  Here
> is how I would like it to work:
> run the script which contains a list of my banks' login pages and it
> displays the first site and requests a username and password.  I give
> those and the script downloads the latest qfx file for the account and
> continues with the next bank.  Is this possible?  Can I use wget or is
> there a Perl library to simplify this?
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