Probably also worth pointing out is that using the ingest framework allows to
further share and reuse functionality.
E.g. smart predictions
https://github.com/beancount/smart_importer
Or using importers through fava
https://github.com/beancount/fava
On December 1, 2018 6:14:39 AM GMT+01:00, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Note: I also created an alternative importing framework (
>https://github.com/jbms/beancount-import) which operates under a
>somewhat
>different model and provides additional functionality, like a web
>interface, automatic prediction of the account, and matching against
>other
>transactions.
>
>On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 5:50 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.
>>
>> 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.)
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
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