Re: importing bank statements

Thanks for referring me to those two automation tools. I took a look at 
both of these excellent tools. I found that Sikuli would not work well 
for our needs because it would be prone to failure if the user did 
anything with the computer while it is working. Selenium looks like it 
might meet our needs and is worthy of further investigation.

If anyone else knows of an automation tool that allows injecting 
JavaScript into a web page please share it with me.

-SteveL

 


On Fri, 20 May 2011 20:55:01 -0400, Jonathan D wrote:
> 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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