beancount beangulp for a total new comer

[Xavier M]

Hi,

Can you share a complete example on how to setup, from scratch, beangulp for a new user ?

I love beancount but I am a lazy guy and I'd rather import OFX files to get my passed/history transactions.

I read all sort of docs, posts but none talked on how to do it from the beginning.

Thank you

[David Avraamides]

Xavier,

I just put your exact question in ChatGPT ("Can you share a complete example on how to set up, from scratch, beangulp for a new user ?"), and I got a very thorough response. Much more so than I would have written as a reply here. I suggest you do the same in your favorite LLM tool. I'm not saying it's the perfect answer but it will probably get you there quickly.

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[Xavier M]

Hi David,

I followed what it told to do but it wants me to launch a command `beangulp' which does not exist.

So I am not sure this is a good tutorial :/

[Chary Ev2geny]

Xavier,

I do not use beangulp myself, but I know that recently there were suggested improvements by  Alen Siljak done in a form of tracked changes to the 

Beangulp - Importing External Data document

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hBfsHZcoHgz5rvhCdP42g2FJ5ouycIMV4H1tfgXpwBU/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.gmhz8vh65l8g

This was discussed here 

 Apparently asha was able to follow these suggestions

So, may be you can just request access to be able to comment the document and then you shall be able to see changes, suggested by Alen Siljak which may help you

[Xavier M]

thanks but this is definetely not a tool for me. I'll get back to something I can use without having to code anything. I just want to track my expenses and budget allocations, not becoming a coding expert ;)

That was an interesting journey but hledger is simpler to use for me.

[Martin Blais]

Oh my

A new variant of lmgtfy has been born

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[David Avraamides]

Yes, my post may have not been very helpful - sorry about that. I have, however, recently migrated my entire Beancount v2 "system" to v3 using the newer, separate beangulp package as the base for five new CSV-based importers (I finally gave up on Fidelity OFX, Tiller and SimpleFin as data sources). I used Claude Code to do the migration and it all worked very well and greatly accelerated a big task that I'd been putting off for a long time.

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I used Claude Code to do the migration and it all worked very well and greatly accelerated a big task that I'd been putting off for a long time.

Ha, with AI improving this fast, procrastination is starting to feel like a winning strategy! Why do something that’s easy with AI today when it’ll be trivial next year?