Issue #198: bean-extract ignores output file arguments, redirects everything to stdout (blais/beancount)

[Lluis Pamies-Juarez]

New issue 198: bean-extract ignores output file arguments, redirects everything to stdout
https://bitbucket.org/blais/beancount/issues/198/bean-extract-ignores-output-file-arguments

Lluis Pamies-Juarez:

[llpa...@gmail.com]

I think I still don't understand the expected workflow for bean-extract.

How do people automatize the process of running bean-extract periodically and appending the result to their ledger?

[Justus Pendleton]

On Thursday, October 19, 2017 at 12:46:52 PM UTC+7, llpa...@gmail.com wrote:

I think I still don't understand the expected workflow for bean-extract.

How do people automatize the process of running bean-extract periodically and appending the result to their ledger?

I don't use bean-extract but I would assume you just use shell redirects. That is

bean-extract ...arguments... >> my.beanfile

[llpa...@gmail.com]

I guess I'll not be using "extract" from the CLI either. Thanks for the fast response.

[Martin Blais]

- You write a .import config file which is essentially a Python list of importer objects configured with your account names

- You run bean-extract with it and with some directory when your download stuff from your bank/credit cards

- bean-extract looks at all the files in that directory and identifies which file it to be processed by which importer ("identify")

- bean-extract then runs each of the matching importers on them

- you redirect that output to a file

- you then manually eyeball (they like to say "reconcile") for correctness, complete ("categorize") and copy paste the imported transactions in the relevant part of your .beancount file, in the manner that suits you best

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