Interesting, thanks for sharing. This is similar to what I ended up doing 
although with fava it's a little clunky since you can't extract in the UI 
with the account set to an empty string. It's minor but seems to work 
perfectly fine for bean-extract.

Thanks again!

On Monday, August 29, 2022 at 12:42:00 AM UTC-7 Patrick Ruckstuhl wrote:

> Hi Allan,
>
> I have actually lots and lots of importers which don't map to a file per 
> se. For all of them I use actually the configuration file for the importer 
> (e.g. with credentials in it) to trigger it. That works very well for me.
>
> It's also not a problem to return entries with different accounts than the 
> account you indicate on the importer (e.g. I import from some api where 
> there are different accounts behind it).
>
>
> If you want some examples, you can find them here: 
> https://github.com/tarioch/beancounttools
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Patrick
>
>
> On 28.08.2022 22:56, Allan Calix wrote:
>
>
>    - No natural account name to map to (i.e. `file_account`). Because the 
>    stream of transaction relates to multiple beancount accounts, filing 
>    doesn't make much sense in this context. This is minor as the file could 
> be 
>    deleted after import, but is a bizarre flow when used in fava.
>
>

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