direct download from broker

[Derek Atkins]

The next major version of gnucash + aqbanking + libofx should hopefully
support OFX Direct Connect.

-derek

Victor Chudnovsky <vchudnov at MIT.EDU> writes:

> Hi there,
>
> I asked the technical support people at Charles Schwab, my broker,
> whence to download an OFX-, QFX-, or QIF-formatted file with my
> transactions. It turns out that they do not make this service available
> on the web because they have a feature that allows Microsoft Money to
> connect directly to their system to download the transactions without
> going through a web browser.
>
> Can/could GnuCash connect to financial institutions using this protocol?
> Does anyone have ideas for any workarounds other than using a Windows
> box to get the transactions from Schwab, save them to a file, and then
> read the file into GnuCash?
>
> FWIW, I suggested to the people at Schwab that they make downloading the
> file from the website an option "because not everyone uses Windows."
>
> Thanks,
>
> Victor

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