[GNC] AqBanking OFX DirectConnect issues

[jean laroche]

Thanks for mentioning that. I have completely given up on aqbanking 
within GC, I struggled mightily to make it work and failed, and decided 
to go the ofx way.
I personally use ofxclient, there's also ofxget.
But sadly recently my bank (Patelco) stopped their ofx server, there was 
a long discussion on this mail group about that.
I started using plaid, which is an api/service that collects 
transactions/balances etc from all your banks and makes them available 
to you. Not everybody is comfortable with that though.
Then I resorted to writing my own screen scraping python code to log 
into my bank, and download the ofx files automatically. I used python 
and selenium and selenium ide (an extension for Chrome and Firefox).
Definitely not ideal, but it works...
Jean.


On 7/15/2020 4:38 AM, fleur wrote:
> Thanks for the info.  FYI If you know python, and are so inclined, there are OFX libraries you can use to generate those requests.  ofxtools is one.
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>> On Jul 12, 2020, at 11:11 AM, Dan Howell <dhowell66 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 09:21 AM EDT fleur <fleur at obscure.org> wrote:
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>>> I can't help unfortunately, but I'm having my own OFX setup issues and I'm
>>> curious: What platform do you run GnuCash on?  Also, were you successful in
>>> re-setting up your Chase account(s)?
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>> As I said in my original message, I'm using GnuCash on Windows 10. Yes, I
>> was successful re-setting up the Chase account, by reusing the same Client
>> UID I generated when I first successfully set up the Chase connection
>> before the AqBanking upgrade.
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>> So far, Schwab and Chase are the only banks I've had success in connecting
>> to. I may try again soon with some other banks, hoping the upgrade might
>> fix some issues I've had before, but given most U.S. banks reluctance to
>> work with any financial software not owned by Intuit, I'm not expecting
>> much. But now that I know how to generate OFX requests with cURL, I may
>> experiment more.
>>
>> Thanks to Martin for fixing the <DTASOF> issue.
>>
>> Dan
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