A tool for downloading transactions from FinTS banking APIs and sorting them into a ledger journal.
Project description
fints2ledger
A tool for downloading transactions from FinTS banking APIs and sorting them into a ledger journal.
pyfints is used to download the transactions. A list of compatible banks can be found there. This tool was tested with ing-diba only.
Install
pip install fints2ledger
Create config file at ~/.config/fints2ledger/config.yml
file with the following contents and replace values in the fints category:
(This file will also be automatically 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] [--files-path FILES_PATH]
[--date START] [--separator SEPARATOR]
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)
--files-path FILES_PATH
directory to store fints2ledger files (like
config.yml) (default: ~/.config/fints2ledger/)
--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
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