Re: importing bank statements

Not to side track your efforts, but is the resulting solution going to be
Mac OS X specific or will users have to buy Fake to use your scripts? Both
seem like they may be a bit limiting.

I wonder if you looked at Selenium http://seleniumhq.org/ as a potential
alternative to automating browser interaction. Or another possibility is
Sikuli http://sikuli.org/ - the latter has a number of potentially useful
aspects in that you might be able to automate the necessary work flow all
the way into MoneyDance.  I think both have more platform independence and
would thus be accessible to a wider proportion on MoneyDance users.

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Steve Lessard
<[email protected]>wrote:

So I had decided to write my own special browser app that would allow
> me to inject JavaScript. Earlier I claimed that writing a special
> program would be a lot of work, and it would have been. Fortunately
> before I invested too much time in writing my own program I found a
> commercial product named "Fake."  Fake is a program for OS X. Fake is a
> "fake" browser. Fake lets you create a workflow for automating
> navigation of a web site. One of the things Fake allows you to do is
> inject JavaScript into a bank's web page. Using Fake I was able to
> fully automate downloading transactions from one specific bank.
>
> What I need to do now is break the JavaScript code into modules so that
> code specific to one bank is separate from code that is generic to all
> banks. I'd be happy to collaborate with anyone who wants to help build
> up a library of code that can automate downloading transactions and
> statements from any bank's web site. Let me know if you are interested.
>
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