On second thought, I went back to the source and am seeing things that make sense now:
https://bitbucket.org/blais/beancount/src/bd3f97caca3def9577a220c73cf0943310f2fe76/examples/ingest/office/?at=default Now to write some actually useful importers for all the things! On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 12:32 AM senorsmile <[email protected]> wrote: > It sounds like you refer to a thread, but I don't see the link. > > I too am more than a little lost. I have written a quick and dirty script > to parse my bank's transactions, and format them exactly like I would > expect to see them in a beancount file. I'm not sure how to link this with > any of the other examples of ingest though. I'm pretty sure the script's > functions would not be useful in the actual ingest flow. > > On Saturday, February 11, 2017 at 4:01:27 PM UTC-8, Jonathan Salles wrote: > > Apologies for the late reply, I just saw this. Anyway, this thread has > some answers and an example Martin gave me when I started several months > ago. I too needed some direct examples to understand how to do it. I > haven't tried the OFX yet, but have successfully done three CSV importers > now. Capital One Visa was the nicest, most information. (I also like > Capital One because it doesn't charge a Foreign Transaction Fee) Fidelity > Visa lacked some fields, and the CSV from my bank had "Export History for > account ..." above the column header row (top of file) which caused the CSV > parser to error. The file also had double quotes around the header fields, > and two columns of the data fields. This caused the extract not to print > anything at all. I like to enter my transactions as a stack with the > latest on top, and Martin graciously added that to the code. > > Jonathan > > On Friday, January 27, 2017 at 10:20:50 PM UTC-5, Dan Cohen wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm new to beancount; I'd like to get started. I've reviewed a lot of > the documentation, and am ready to start ingesting transactions into my > beancount file. I'm lost on the ingest tools. I see the logic in the > methodology, but I need something more step by step. can someone help me > with this? > > for instance, > > I have multiple accounts with a common bank (checking, savings, money > market) I downloaded the CSVs and the headers include. > BANK ID,Account Number,Account Type,Balance,Start Date,End > Date,Transaction Type,Transaction Date,Transaction Amount,Transaction ID, > Transaction Description > > And 2 credit cards account CSV files have headers: > "Status","Date","Description","Debit","Credit" > or > "Status","Date","Description","Debit","Credit","Member Name" > > what goes in the config.import file? > > CONFIG = [ > > > ] > > What is the easiest way for me to get started? Thanks, Dan > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Beancount" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/40efd57a-f120-484c-8b32-133aaab73e89%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/40efd57a-f120-484c-8b32-133aaab73e89%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAMQv9hDA2OQ-XaOubvtyK6AWo-8MOaRn3JJaBaXL8go-vREiHQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
