[ale] pulling bank info?

Fulton Green ale at FultonGreen.com
Fri Jul 6 10:56:16 EDT 2001


If you check yesterday's Slashdot interview with GnuCash's author, there is a
question about automatically retrieving bank info for importing into GnuCash.
The answer went somewhere along the lines of using an SSL dialogue to retrieve
QIF data.

On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 10:34:31AM -0400, Christopher Bergeron wrote:
> Does anyone know how I could pull down my bank's account page?  I was
> thinking about using openssl and wget to pull down my bank info and set
> PS1 = my net worth like this:
> 
> [$5,352,332,343:root at hemorrhage /]#
> 
> 
> okay, maybe not as big of a number, but you get the jist.  is it possible to
> pull down secure webpages this way?  is it possible to download secure
> webpages at all?
> 
> does anyone do anything like this?  I've written a program that parses
> ticketmaster for my favorite bands and emails me; but since this is
> encrypted it's a little bit different...
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