[Linux, command line] Importing transactions from bank account data file, into a gnucash account

[Jeff Kletsky]

George,

The product manager in me has to ask, "Why?" What are you trying to 
accomplish that the time it is going to take you to learn how to do this 
all, decide how to robustly handle exceptions, and provide sufficient 
testing that it can be run "blind" from the command line is easier than 
running it from within the GUI?

I'm not saying that you don't have a valid use case. I'm just trying to 
have you articulate it so that the group here can point you in a 
reasonable direction.

Jeff


(George -- apologies for the double message. I inadvertently failed to 
reply to the list on my previous email.)

On 3/20/15 12:13 PM, George wrote:
> Thank you for your replies everybody.
>
> After reading your comments, I think that I will go with either the
> python keybindings or pycash. My python is not the best, but I'll figure
> it out, it seems to be the way to go.
>
>  From a first (admittedly superficial) eye-balling of the documentations,
> I could not see how to insert a transaction to an existing gnucash
> account with either the python bindings, or piecash. I will definitely
> read the documentations more carefully, but for now could you point me
> to something more specific, like a link to an example or the function
> names?
>
> Thanks again.
>
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015, at 03:56 AM, Fabio Coatti wrote:
>> In data giovedì 19 marzo 2015 15:58:24, geo909 ha scritto:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I would like to write a linux script that imports the transactions from a
>>> bank account data file to an existing gnucash account.
>>>
>>> The bank account data file can be a quicken, quickbooks, excel, ms money,
>>> simply accounting, ascii, or qif file.
>>>
>>> I don't mind if the imported transactions show as "Imbalanced", as long as
>>> everything is done from the command line, and without running the gnucash
>>> gui.
>>>
>>> I don't have the words to describe how convenient that would be! I'd
>>> appreciate any suggestions.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> George
>>
>> I recently used ofxstatement https://github.com/kedder/ofxstatement to
>> convert
>> xls files from my bank to ofx files that gnucash can import. The problem
>> is
>> that, unless you are very lucky to find a plugin that works for your
>> bank, you
>> have to write a small python plugin for your data.
>> So if you are a bit confident with python this could be an option. Using
>> provided examples to wrap up something working is not too hard: if I done
>> it
>> everyone can do the same :)
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Fabio
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