Athenodoros
FR: import beancount format
This is a feature request.
Situation:
Hi, I just've hopped in here from your post in Hacker News. FYI, I'm using plain text accounting with beancount for transactions journal, and fava as its web GUI.
Feature request:
If you have interest, a feature to import from beancount file format would be curious to explore.
Thanks
Very curious to see if this goes anywhere. I've been toying with creating an app very similar to this but backed by a ledger file. This could possibly save me a bunch of work 🙂
Hey both - love that you're interested. I've had a look, and beancount definitely looks like a reasonable fit for what I'm going for here: most of the language maps pretty directly to existing primitives in TopHat.
That said, I can't immediately see an authoritative JS library for the file format, and I feel like doing that here is probably scope creep beyond what this project should be. If there's something out there though, I could maybe look at using it as an import/export target?
Failing that, it looks like Python has solid interfaces to beancount and could probably convert pretty easily between the TopHat json imports/exports (no documentation right now, but downloading the test data as json should be pretty self-explanatory) and the beancount format. You could probably convert them over pretty easily that way, if you're happy with the programming side?
Hi @Athenodoros - https://github.com/tgrosinger/ledger-obsidian has a typescript parser of the ledger format (similar to beancount's). In case it's useful.
True. I could also break that out into a separate repo. I'm planning on continuing to add more of the ledger spec over time.
I think I'd be open to it in a standalone package, although I'd definitely want to see it before committing either way - like I say, I don't want to blow this out too much in a different direction...
Let me know if you end up doing it - I think on the TopHat side the integration would be pretty straight-forward.