Decided on the way back that I'd finish writing my OFX gateway. The idea is that the OFX gateway would be able to automatically log in and extract your statement details from the variety of online sites that I use that don't let you export your details (or have a convoluted way of doing it). So you'd just hit "update" and MSMoney would talk to the OFX server which would contact each of the sites it knows about, screen-scrape the details, and present them back to Money in OFX format.

After an hour of hacking late last night I have a module that can log into the LLoyds TSB site and download your statement. Next is getting into OFX (I already have written something to do that). The biggest headache is making money contact your OFX server; it works, but it's just not very user friendly yet.

I should really switch everything to GNUCash and spend my hacking efforts on that. The only thing holding me up is downloading the whole 60Mb+ of gnome experience over a 45k link.

Created: 30 May 2001

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