Scripting downloading of transactions

[jmk]

Yes that's right. Two things I used:

1) Adapted a python script I found here (thanks by the way if you're on
the list still):

http://thefinancebuff.com/replacing-microsoft-money-part-5-ofx-scripts.html

2) Used another project I found called ofxparse to help with the output

https://github.com/jseutter/ofxparse

Each morning I receive an e-mail with my the balance of my checking acct
- all credit card accounts.

On 02/11/2016 12:35 PM, Sébastien de Menten wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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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