Mark J Cox : More OFX

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13 May 2001: More OFX

So I got sent a copy of the file and it turns out only two UK banks actually have OFX servers, Nationwide and Woolwich. Since I'm with the Nationwide I thought I'd have a go. Added the Nationwide entry to the fipartnr.ini file and bingo, it all worked perfectly. Until Money decided to check for updates and found that fipartnr.ini had changed. Anyway as long as I ignore the "Nationwide has changed it's online services" messages then all is okay.

Have you seen things like yodlee.com? I've been thinking of writing a OFX server with screen scraping so that you could connect to it and it would connect to all those other banks I use that I can screen scrape the info out: Lloyds TSB, Egg, Cahoot, Citibank, various pension providers.

[By messing around with URLs at the various sites and using the mnn extraction tool I've found the Microsoft test bank server and some other fun things!]

Updated my OFX import utility to screen-scrape American Express cards too

Created: 13 May 2001

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