On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 8:50 PM TF <[email protected]> wrote: > I have to admit, bean-import and accompanying modules have me a little > flummoxed. If I'm not mistaken, the idea is to take CSV and translate it > into beancount ledger entries. >
Any input file, not just CSV I'm pretty sure I could write a python script of my own to import and > convert entries and append them to my .beancount file. It wouldn't do any > of the math, but beancount does that; if I get errors, I'll fix them by > hand and/or adjust my importer. I could also have my importer move the > original documents to the correct directory to file it away. > > But am I missing something that I'd get from the usual approach? (Other > than unit testing -- I'd definitely lose that, but I don't fully understand > unit testing anyway; I'm a self-taught coder.) > Yes, you could do all that from scratch. The ingest framework helps in providing a little bit of structure and automation to these tasks, where you only have to implement a few functions and has some functions to setup regression tests. Basically, you want to do four things when you import: - download the files - identify: automatically identify a file to link it with an associated importer configuration (e.g. which accounts to output) - extract: extract transactions using this configuration - file: move the file to a structured directory hierarchy The ingest framework helps you do the last three. Thanks! > > -- > 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/c9c015f4-2741-41bc-8505-174e338661fe%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/c9c015f4-2741-41bc-8505-174e338661fe%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/CAK21%2BhPQ0AR29sbOb8je8T4SpiWbjywQWTFGrn3qYwTrwtiwJA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
