fints2ledger 0.3

# fints2ledger
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A tool for downloading transactions from FinTS banking APIs and sorting them into a [ledger journal](http://hledger.org/).

[pyfints](https://github.com/raphaelm/python-fints) is used to download the transactions. A list of compatible banks can be found there. This tool was tested with ing-diba only.

## Install

```
python setup.py install
```

Create a `config.yml` file with the following contents and replace values in the fints category:
(This file will also be atomatically created if missing)
```
fints:
blz: <your bank's BLZ>
account: <your account number>
password: <your banking password>
endpoint: <your bank fints endpoint> # e.g.: https://fints.ing-diba.de/fints/ for ING-Diba

ledger:
prompts:
- credit_account
- debit_account
autocomplete:
accounts:
- credit_account
- debit_account
defaults:
debit_account: assets:bank:checking
md5:
- date
- payee
- purpose
- amount
```

## Usage
Run
```
fints2ledger
```
This will download the transactions from the last year and tries to convert them to a ledger journal.

A list of available command line arguments:
```
usage: fints2ledger [-h] [--no-csv] [--no-ledger] [--csv-file CSVFILE]
[--ledger-file LEDGERFILE]

Converting transactions from fints apis to ledger.

optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--no-csv exclude conversion from fints to csv (default: not
excluded)
--no-ledger exclude conversion from csv to ledger (default: not
excluded)
--csv-file CSVFILE file to store/load csv transactions to/from (default:
transactions.csv)
--ledger-file LEDGERFILE
file to store ledger entries to (default:
ledger.journal)
--date START start date to pull the FinTS entires from (fromat:
2017/12/31 or 17/12/31, default: last year)
--separator SEPARATOR
character used as separator in csv file (default: ;)
```

### Template File
A template file with the name `template.txt` will be automaticall generated. It will be user to create the ledger entries.
It looks something like
```
{date} {payee} {posting} {purpose}
; md5sum: {md5sum}
{debit_account:<60} {currency} {debit}
{credit_account:<60} {currency} {credit}

```
Each name inside curly brackets can specify a value that can come from either a named csv column, a default value (from the `config.yml`) or an input prompt (also from the `config.yml`).

### Converting from csv to ledger without requesting a FinTS API
With the argument `--no-csv` the program will not create a csv file with banking transactions itself (default ist fints -> csv -> ledger).
Instead, it will convert directly from a csv file to ledger. This is useful when all transactions have already been downloaded or when converting from another source than FinTS to ledger.

The csv file must provide a headline which names the columns. The column names are then used to fill the values in the template file.
Example:
```
date;amount;currency;payee;posting;purpose
2017/04/26;167.31;EUR;Billy, Bill;bonus;for vacation
2017/04/27;-130;EUR;John, Smith;debit entry;monthly electricity payment
```