Webgui looks awesome ( https://beancount.github.io/fava/ )
Demo: https://fava.pythonanywhere.com/example-with-budgets/income_statement/
I also found another ledger/beancount tool, but this one has a postfinance and interactive brokers parser: https://github.com/sboehler/beans
I found some importer for beancount:
DKB
ING-DiBa
Commerzbank
N26
Iâm using beancount for a while and Iâm really happy!!
I started with imports, etcâŠand finished doing passing all to CSV, from there to Numbers or Excel and⊠adding unique identifiers after each field to copy and paste everything to a power text editor, kind of Visual Code where I format in beancount format.
Itâs long and I donât have time to explain the complete method but is something like that: You have:
10.10.2019. âBuy in COOPâ 123 CHF
I put. In excel columns like:
10.10.2019 * ###_### âBuy in COOPâ â- Expenses:Groceries 123 CHF
Copy and paste to Visual Code and find all the âspecialâ fields to make a global âenterâ and spacesâŠetc⊠you edit a line but you are editing the thousand of lines that have your file⊠I donât know if is clear.
Takes time, I know, but is much more quicker than finding an importer 
You can use this https://sboehler.github.io/beans/ , it provides parsing for:
us.interactivebrokers ( Interactive Brokers )
ch.postfinance ( Postfinance )
ch.supercardplus ( Supercard Plus )
"The importing functionality of beans can of course also be used if you use another plain-text accounting tool. beancountâs syntax is largely compatible with beans. "
Do we have a beancount expert or python coder here?
Iâm new to beancount and need an importer for revolut and cashback creditcards.
Some example files:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/yrpjw2tvmo8uszk/AAB00B6XAoe2UGWeMOGiGCGwa?dl=0
I pay you a beer or coffee
@nugget
I posted a parser for postfinance ( https://sboehler.github.io/beans/ ) , works perfect with beancount 
With the csv you can parse it and use it with beancount.
You can edit the âexamples.rulesâ for the matching:
âŠ
description =~ âMintos Marketplaceâ -> Assets:DE:Mintos:Investments
description =~ âWohnungsmiete.*â -> Expenses:Home:Rent
âŠ
And parse your csv file with beans:
./beans import -i ch.postfinance -c example.rules -a Assets:CH:Postfinance:Shared postfinance20191102.csv >> myfile.beans
ahahah i never scrolled down that page to realize the export-button. thanks for pointing out!
thanks for posting the command too, iâm quit new to unix and it always takes ages to figure out the next command 
⊠anyone looked at beancount.io and furious.ca? seems to me the author removes some content and moves towards a paid solution. what u think?
Iâm not even sure itâs from the same author:
Beancount.io is not affiliated with beancount · GitHub but uses Fava under MIT license
The source code is still available from the bitbucket repo but the doc on furius.ca seems to be gone, weird.
yes exactly, i find alot of dead links recently
Anyone got the
beancount.pricestock quote fetching running?
[edit] yes! yahoo works, now working on google:
bean-price -e USD:yahoo/VTI
2019-11-19 price VTI 158.73 USD
bean-price -e USD:google/NYSEARCA:VTI
ERROR : Could not fetch for job: DatedPrice(base=âNYSEARCA:VTIâ, quote=âUSDâ, date=None, sources=[PriceSource(module=<module âgoogleâ (namespace)>, symbol=âNYSEARCA:VTIâ, invert=False)])
I always put both Google and yahoo, Iâm not sure if Google is still working.
could you share your explicit line of code? thanks
Google API is not maintained/available for a whileâŠ
Yahoo or Alphavantage are your best alternatives.
Iâve been using Yahoo with Beancount for months without any problem.
Some other ideas:
An advice for people starting with beancount:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Lencerf.beancount
Youâll love beancount after that
Tino.
I think I got exactly to this solution - by some chance 
no idea on how cruel it is if I started doing stuff with nano (i am new to ubuntuâŠ)
thanks for mentioning
I got help from the beancounts maillinglist for revolut import.
The code for the importer:
from dateutil.parser import parse
from io import StringIO
from beancount.ingest import importer
from beancount.core import data
from beancount.core import amount
from beancount.core.number import D
from beancount.ingest.importers.mixins import identifier
import csv
class Importer(identifier.IdentifyMixin,
importer.ImporterProtocol):
"""An importer for Revolut CSV files."""
def __init__(self, regexps, account, currency):
identifier.IdentifyMixin.__init__(self, matchers=[
('filename', regexps)
])
self.account = account
self.currency = currency
def name(self):
return super().name() + self.account
def file_account(self, file):
return self.account
def extract(self, file, existing_entries):
entries = []
with StringIO(file.contents()) as csvfile:
reader = csv.DictReader(csvfile, ['Date',
'Reference','PaidOut', 'PaidIn', 'ExchangeOut', 'ExchangeIn',
'Balance', 'Category', 'Notes'], delimiter=';',
skipinitialspace=True)
next(reader)
for row in reader:
metakv = {
'category': row['Category'].strip(),
}
exchangeIn = row['ExchangeIn'].strip()
exchangeOut = row['ExchangeOut'].strip()
if exchangeIn and exchangeOut:
metakv['originalIn'] = exchangeIn
metakv['originalOut'] = exchangeOut
elif exchangeIn:
metakv['original'] = exchangeIn
elif exchangeOut:
metakv['original'] = exchangeOut
meta = data.new_metadata(file.name, 0, metakv)
entry = data.Transaction(
meta,
parse(row['Date'].strip()).date(),
'*',
'',
(row['Reference'].strip() + ' ' +
row['Notes'].strip()).strip(),
data.EMPTY_SET,
data.EMPTY_SET,
[
data.Posting(self.account,
amount.Amount(D(row['PaidIn'].strip()) -
D(row['PaidOut'].strip()), self.currency), None, None, None,
None),
]
)
entries.append(entry)
return entries`
config.py:
`from dateutil.parser import parse
from io import StringIO
from beancount.ingest import importer
from beancount.core import data
from beancount.core import amount
from beancount.core.number import D
from beancount.ingest.importers.mixins import identifier
import csv
class Importer(identifier.IdentifyMixin,
importer.ImporterProtocol):
"""An importer for Revolut CSV files."""
def __init__(self, regexps, account, currency):
identifier.IdentifyMixin.__init__(self, matchers=[
('filename', regexps)
])
self.account = account
self.currency = currency
def name(self):
return super().name() + self.account
def file_account(self, file):
return self.account
def extract(self, file, existing_entries):
entries = []
with StringIO(file.contents()) as csvfile:
reader = csv.DictReader(csvfile, ['Date',
'Reference','PaidOut', 'PaidIn', 'ExchangeOut', 'ExchangeIn',
'Balance', 'Category', 'Notes'], delimiter=';',
skipinitialspace=True)
next(reader)
for row in reader:
metakv = {
'category': row['Category'].strip(),
}
exchangeIn = row['ExchangeIn'].strip()
exchangeOut = row['ExchangeOut'].strip()
if exchangeIn and exchangeOut:
metakv['originalIn'] = exchangeIn
metakv['originalOut'] = exchangeOut
elif exchangeIn:
metakv['original'] = exchangeIn
elif exchangeOut:
metakv['original'] = exchangeOut
meta = data.new_metadata(file.name, 0, metakv)
entry = data.Transaction(
meta,
parse(row['Date'].strip()).date(),
'*',
'',
(row['Reference'].strip() + ' ' +
row['Notes'].strip()).strip(),
data.EMPTY_SET,
data.EMPTY_SET,
[
data.Posting(self.account,
amount.Amount(D(row['PaidIn'].strip()) -
D(row['PaidOut'].strip()), self.currency), None, None, None,
None),
]
)
entries.append(entry)
return entries`
Run with command:
bean-extract config.py Revolut-CHF.myname.csv
Hi!
I know my way well around Linux but use a Windows PC for personal stuff. Have some VMs with Linux though where, among other things, I run Python scripts to update Gnucashâs stock prices database.
Iâm looking into transitioning to beancount. My main goal is to be able to edit the bean files easily from my Windows PCs. Iâm guessing thatâs not a problem per se.
But I also donât want to waste time setting stuff up. Now that you all seem to have gotten the gist of things and knowing that I know absolutely nothing about beancount, how would you recomend I start? Docker images on Windows? Any tutorial?
I can also spin up a VM just for this, but seems inconvenient. If you find it easier, please let me know as well.
Thanks, guys!
If youâre familiar with docker, thatâs the way I would go. Otherwise maybe the easiest way for s to use wsl.
My seutp is, and i am mosly very happy:
in the beginning i also tried docker, but it was too much of new stuff at the time. you can read up about it further up in the thread 
among others I had the problem of accessing the localhost fava webapp through the docker container shell.
unfortuanately a good tutorial for getting started is not available to my knowledge. there is a section in the documentation, but the author and all the beancount community suffer heavily from the Curse of knowledge
some sources I used:
Beancount - Syntax Cheat Sheet - Google Docs
Beancount - Index - Google Docs
Beancount Google Groups
Awesome Beancount | awesome-beancount
Command-line Accounting in Context â Beancount 2.0b3 documentation
Alex Johnstone - Managing my personal finances with beancount
Vince Cima
Docker Container on Windows host system: how to access mapped ports? - Docker Desktop for Windows - Docker Forums
Browsable & searchable Documentation for Beancount â Beancount 2.0b3 documentation
beancount-import/ofx.py at master · jbms/beancount-import
my tutorial would be: start as simple as possible (bare beancount & fava) and add your taste as you go. donât try to do everything at once. Read the google doc documentation, but donât be disappointed if it doesnt help very much when you look for something specific.
In the end I made it and I donât think in a glorious way xD so any IT-person should be able to do so too. And with me there is one more person willing to answer question