Scripting downloading of transactions

[Sébastien de Menten]

To understand well your solution,  you just downloaded your ofx and
calculated your alert based on this w/o going through GnuCash, correct ?
Did you use the ofxclient python package ?

On Thursday, February 11, 2016, jmk <jmk at cmail.nu> wrote:

> Well I was able to accomplish this more directly by using python to do
> OFX queries directly ... keeping it simple. Works great.
>
> That said, it would still be nice to have transactions automatically
> downloaded into GnuCash (or at least save my various passwords so I
> don't have to enter them every time).
>
> On 02/11/2016 06:43 AM, jmk wrote:
> > Has anyone scripted the download of OFX transactions into GnuCash? I
> > would like GnuCash to automatically download transactions once a day
> > without input from the user. Can anyone think of how this could be done?
> >
> > My goal is to create a daily "balance alert" that will take my checking
> > balance and subtract my credit card balance and send me an email/text
> > daily to tell me what funds I have available that day. I am pretty sure
> > I can accomplish this through the use of shell scripting and piecash,
> > but the missing piece is keeping GnuCash up to date with the latest
> > transactions w/o intervention.
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