Ecosyste.ms: Awesome

An open API service indexing awesome lists of open source software.

Awesome Lists | Featured Topics | Projects

https://github.com/cantino/reckon

Flexibly import bank account CSV files into Ledger for command-line accounting
https://github.com/cantino/reckon

Last synced: about 9 hours ago
JSON representation

Flexibly import bank account CSV files into Ledger for command-line accounting

Awesome Lists containing this project

README 

        
# Reckon



![Build Status](https://github.com/cantino/reckon/workflows/Build%20Status/badge.svg)



Reckon automagically converts CSV files for use with the command-line accounting tool [Ledger](http://www.ledger-cli.org/).  It also helps you to select the correct accounts associated with the CSV data using Bayesian machine learning.



## Installation



Assuming you have Ruby and [Rubygems](http://rubygems.org/pages/download) installed on your system, simply run



    gem install --user reckon



## Example Usage



First, login to your bank and export your transaction data as a CSV file.



To see how the CSV parses:



    reckon -f bank.csv -p



If your CSV file has a header on the first line, include `--contains-header`.



To convert to ledger format and label everything, do:



    reckon -f bank.csv -o output.dat



To have reckon learn from an existing ledger file, provide it with -l:



    reckon -f bank.csv -l 2010.dat -o output.dat



Learn more:



    > reckon -h



    Usage: Reckon.rb [options]



    -f, --file FILE                  The CSV file to parse

    -a, --account NAME               The Ledger Account this file is for

    -v, --[no-]verbose               Run verbosely

    -i, --inverse                    Use the negative of each amount

    -p, --print-table                Print out the parsed CSV in table form

    -o, --output-file FILE           The ledger file to append to

    -l, --learn-from FILE            An existing ledger file to learn accounts from

        --ignore-columns 1,2,5

                                     Columns to ignore, starts from 1

        --money-column 2

                                     Column number of the money column, starts from 1

        --money-columns 2,3

                                     Column number of the money columns, starts from 1 (1 or 2 columns)

        --raw-money

                                     Don't format money column (for stocks)

        --date-column 3

                                     Column number of the date column, starts from 1

        --contains-header [N]

                                     Skip N header rows - default 1

        --csv-separator ','

                                     CSV separator (default ',')

        --comma-separates-cents

                                     Use comma to separate cents ($100,50 vs. $100.50)

        --encoding 'UTF-8'

                                     Specify an encoding for the CSV file

    -c, --currency '$'               Currency symbol to use - default $ (ex £, EUR)

        --date-format FORMAT

                                     CSV file date format (see `date` for format)

        --ledger-date-format FORMAT

                                     Ledger date format (see `date` for format)

    -u, --unattended                 Don't ask questions and guess all the accounts automatically. Use with --learn-from or --account-tokens options.

    -t, --account-tokens FILE        YAML file with manually-assigned tokens for each account (see README)

        --table-output-file FILE

        --default-into-account NAME

                                     Default into account

        --default-outof-account NAME

                                     Default 'out of' account

        --fail-on-unknown-account

                                     Fail on unmatched transactions.

        --suffixed

                                     Append currency symbol as a suffix.

    -h, --help                       Show this message

        --version                    Show version



If you find CSV files that it can't parse, send me examples or pull requests!



## Unattended mode



You can run reckon in a non-interactive mode.

To guess the accounts reckon can use an existing ledger file or a token file with keywords.



`reckon --unattended -a Checking -l 2010.dat -f bank.csv -o ledger.dat`



`reckon --unattended -a Checking --account-tokens tokens.yaml -f bank.csv -o ledger.dat`



In unattended mode, you can use STDIN to read your csv data, by specifying `-` as the argument to `-f`.



`csv_file_generator | reckon --unattended -a Checking -l 2010.dat -o ledger.dat -f -`



### Account Tokens



The account tokens file provides a way to teach reckon about what tokens are associated with an account.  As an example, this `tokens.yaml` file:



    Expenses:

      Bank:

        - 'ING Direct Deposit'



Would tokenize to 'ING', 'Direct' and 'Deposit'.  The matcher would then suggest matches to transactions that included those tokens. (ex 'Chase Direct Deposit')



Here's an example of `tokens.yaml`:



```

Income:

  Salary:

    - 'LÖN'

    - 'Salary'

Expenses:

  Bank:

    - 'Comission'

    - 'MasterCard'

  Rent:

    - '0011223344' # Landlord bank number

  Hosting:

    - /hosting/i # This regexp will catch descriptions such as WebHosting or filehosting

'[Internal:Transfer]': # Virtual account

  - '4433221100' # Your own account number

```



Reckon will use `Income:Unknown` or `Expenses:Unknown` if it can't match a transaction to an account.



You can override these names with the `--default_outof_account` and `--default_into_account` options.



### Substring Match



If, in the above example, you'd prefer to match any transaction that contains the string 'ING Direct Deposit' you have to use a regex:



    Expenses:

      Bank:

        - /ING Direct Deposit/



## Contributing



We encourage you to contribute to Reckon! Here is some information to help you.



### Patches/Pull Requests Process



1. Fork the project.

2. Make your feature addition or bug fix.

3. Add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.

4. Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history.

   - (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)

5. Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.



### Integration Tests



Reckon has integration test located in `spec/integration`.  These are integration and regression tests for reckon.



Run all the tests:



    ./spec/integration/test.sh



Run a single test



    ./spec/integration/test.sh chase/account_tokens_and_regex



#### Add a new integration test



Each test has it's own directory, which you can add any files you want, but the following files are required:



- `test_args` - arguments to add to the reckon command to test against, can specify `--unattended`, `-f input.csv`, etc

- `output.ledger` - the expected ledger file output



If the result of running reckon with `test_args` does not match `output.ledger`, then the test fails.



Most tests will specify `--unattended`, otherwise reckon prompts for keyboard input.



The convention is to use `input.csv` as the input file, and `tokens.yml` as the tokens file, but it is not required.



## Copyright



Copyright (c) 2013 Andrew Cantino (@cantino). See LICENSE for details.



Thanks to @BlackEdder for many contributions!



Currently maintained by @benprew. Thank you!