I'll take a look, thank you for the pointer. On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 7:28 PM Jeremy Maitin-Shepard <jeremy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You may want to take a look at > > https://github.com/jbms/beancount-import > > That does a lot of what you describe here, and I'm also very open to > collaborate on making it better or integrating it with other tools. > > In particular I've been meaning to look into integrating it with fava. > > > On Tue, Dec 4, 2018, 18:17 Lluís Pàmies i Juárez <ll...@pamies.cat wrote: > >> I have an idea for a new way to import financial data to Beancount. >> Probably someone had had the same idea before in this group, so I would >> like to understand the problems with it. >> >> Right now you basically need to manually write importers for each source >> of financial data. This is tedious and not for the average Joe. >> >> Instead, one could have basic scripts that translate from OFX/CSV >> "postings", basically (date, price, amount, memo, etc). This seems easier, >> and more reusable, it's just a one-to-one map. We could easily have a >> repository of mappings for each financial institution. Then you could have >> an UI (some extension of Fava maybe) that orders by date all these postings >> from all sources. Then you select pairs of postings (or more than two >> postings) and hit a button "Create Transaction". Boom! these postings >> disappear from the list. >> >> Additionally you could have the option to add an adhoc postings to the >> group to make it balance to zero. This process might not work for 100% of >> the postings, but it seems that it would take less time to manually fix >> some entries than writing lots of importers. You could also use columns >> from the input file (e.g.: symbol, fund, subaccount, etc), to personalize >> account hierarchies. >> >> I am thinking to write something like this, and I would like to know >> where this model falls apart. Thanks!! >> >> -- >> Lluís Pàmies i Juárez >> http://lluis.pamies.cat >> >> -- >> 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 beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to beancount@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAKD2hyGcOOZkSEpEiTVjANM1OrNG9jZTy_PCj4o4S-wk_Erm-Q%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAKD2hyGcOOZkSEpEiTVjANM1OrNG9jZTy_PCj4o4S-wk_Erm-Q%40mail.gmail.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 beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to beancount@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAKJfoCH%2BVDFB%2Bc%2BihNb-3dhxkfE%3DtF%3DK%3DxXsKw7T_HZ3Rc3Unw%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAKJfoCH%2BVDFB%2Bc%2BihNb-3dhxkfE%3DtF%3DK%3DxXsKw7T_HZ3Rc3Unw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Lluís Pàmies i Juárez http://lluis.pamies.cat -- 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 beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to beancount@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAKD2hyH85tXsqdK5V-qmULj98UZqPtgDk6ozbUPukmi1YHQLog%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
