[HN Gopher] How you can track your personal finances using Python
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How you can track your personal finances using Python
Author : siddhant
Score : 26 points
Date : 2021-09-04 20:40 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| diibv wrote:
| hledger is another open-source CLI tool for accounting that works
| amazingly well for me. You can add transactions editing in plain
| text too and there is a basic web UI on top of it.
| rmesters wrote:
| Regarding "1. Download transactions from your bank" - to avoid
| having to deal with PDFs, it's possible to use account
| aggregators to fetch your own bank data in Python-friendly
| formats like JSON.
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| We have this feature at Nordigen (I'm the cofounder), where we
| allow developers to download their bank statements in JSON format
| from 1,000+ European banks (free):
| https://nordigen.com/en/blog/download-your-bank-statement-js...
| djhworld wrote:
| I'm not really sure about the python aspect in this article
| however I've been using beancount and Fava for nearly 3 years now
| and it's one of my favourite pieces of software. Outside of
| installing it I've never had to really think about python.
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| All of my financial history is contained in a text file processed
| by beancount and long may it continue!
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| One thing I do wonder though is how well it scales, I'm a single
| man so tracking everything isn't too much effort but if I had a
| partner it suddenly becomes at least 50% more things to track
| remram wrote:
| You didn't have to write any Python to import transactions from
| your bank?
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