Ofxstatement is a tool to convert proprietary bank statements to OFX format,
suitable for importing into personal accounting systems like GnuCash. This
package provides a command line tool to run: ofxstatement. Run
ofxstatement -h for more help. ofxstatement works under Python 3 and
is not compatible with Python 2.
Most internet banking systems are capable of exporting account transactions to some sort of computer readable format, but few support standard data formats, like OFX. On the other hand, personal accounting systems such as GnuCash support standard formats only, and will probably never support proprietary statement formats of online banking systems.
To bridge the gap between them, this ofxstatement tool was created.
The ofxstatement tool is intended to be used in the following workflow:
- At the end of each month, use your online banking service to export statements from all of your bank accounts in a format known to ofxstatement.
- Run
ofxstatementon each exported file to convert it to OFX. Shell scripts or a Makefile may help to automate this routine. - Import the generated OFX file into your personal accounting system.
Before using ofxstatement, you have to install a plugin for your bank (or
write your own!). Plugins are installed as regular python packages, with
easy_install or pip, for example:
$ pip3 install ofxstatement-lithuanian
Note that ofxstatement itself will be installed automatically this way. After
the installation, the ofxstatement utility will be available.
Users of Ubuntu and Debian operating systems can install ofxstatement from official package repositories:
$ apt install ofxstatement ofxstatement-plugins
You can check that ofxstatement is working by running:
$ ofxstatement list-plugins
You should get a list of your installed plugins.
After installation, the usage is simple:
$ ofxstatement convert -t <plugin> bank_statement.csv statement.ofx
The resulting statement.ofx is then ready to be imported into a personal
accounting system.
There are several user-developed plugins available:
| Plugin | Description |
|---|---|
| ofxstatement-mt940 | Swift MT940 statements |
| ofxstatement-iso20022 | Generic ISO-20022 format |
| ofxstatement-paypal | PayPal, *.csv for private accounts |
| ofxstatement-transferwise | Transferwise CSV (international) |
| ofxstatement-lithuanian | Plugins for several banks, operating in Lithuania: Swedbank, Danske and common Lithuanian exchange format - LITAS-ESIS. |
| ofxstatement-czech | Plugin for Poštovní spořitelna
(maxibps) and banks using GPC
format (e.g., FIO banka, module
gpc). |
| ofxstatement-airbankcz | Plugin for Air Bank a.s. (Czech Republic) |
| ofxstatement-raiffeisencz | Plugin for Raiffeisenbank a.s. (Czech Republic) |
| ofxstatement-unicreditcz | Plugin for UniCredit Bank Czech Republic and Slovakia |
| ofxstatement-equabankcz | Plugin for Equa Bank a.s. (Czech Republic) |
| ofxstatement-cz-komercni | Komerční banka (Czech Republic) |
| ofxstatement-mbankcz | mBank S.A. (Czech Republic) |
| ofxstatement-otp | Plugin for OTP Bank, operating in Hungary |
| ofxstatement-bubbas | Set of plugins, developed by @bubbas:
dkb_cc and lbbamazon. |
| banking.statements.osuuspankki | Finnish Osuuspankki bank |
| banking.statements.nordea | Nordea bank (at least Finnish branch of it) |
| ofxstatement-seb | SEB (Sweden), it parses Export.xlsx for private accounts |
| ofxstatement-lansforsakringar | Länsförsäkringar (Sweden), it parses Kontoutdrag.xls for private accounts |
| ofxstatement-be-belfius | Belfius (Belgium) |
| ofxstatement-be-keytrade | KeytradeBank (Belgium) |
| ofxstatement-be-ing | ING (Belgium) |
| ofxstatement-be-kbc | KBC (Belgium) |
| ofxstatement-be-argenta | Argenta (Belgium) |
| ofxstatement-be-crelan | Crelan (Belgium) |
| ofxstatement-be-triodos | Belgian Triodos Bank CSV statements |
| ofxstatement-be-newb | Belgian cooperative bank newB |
| ofxstatement-germany | Plugin for several german banks (1822direkt and Postbank at the moment) |
| ofxstatement-dab | DAB Bank (Germany) |
| ofxstatement-consors | Consorsbank (Germany) |
| ofxstatement-de-triodos | German Triodos Bank CSV statements (also works for GLS Bank) |
| ofxstatement-sp-freiburg | Sparkasse Freiburg-Nördlicher Breisgau (Germany) |
| ofxstatement-de-ing | Ing Diba Bank (Germany) |
| ofxstatement-mastercard-de | Mastercard PDF statements (Germany) |
| ofxstatement-sparkasse-de | Sparkasse PDF statements (Germany) |
| ofxstatement-austrian | Plugins for several banks, operating in Austria: Easybank, ING-Diba, Livebank, Raiffeisenbank. |
| ofxstatement-postfinance | Swiss PostFinance (E-Finance Java text based bank/credit statements). |
| ofxstatement-fineco | FinecoBank (Italy) |
| ofxstatement-intesasp | Intesa San Paolo xlsx balance file (Italy) |
| ofxstatement-chebanca | CheBanca! xlsx format (Italy) |
| ofxstatement-n26 | N26 Bank (Italy) |
| ofxstatement-it-banks | Widiba and Webank (Italy) |
| ofxstatement-bancoposta | BancoPosta - Poste Italiane (Italy) |
| ofxstatement-hype | Hype - Banca Sella (Italy) |
| ofxstatement-betterment | Betterment (USA) |
| ofxstatement-us-first-republic | First Republic Bank (USA) |
| ofxstatement-simple | Simple (USA, defunct) JSON financial statement format |
| ofxstatement-mbank-sk | MBank.sk (Slovakia) |
| ofxstatement-latvian | Latvian banks |
| ofxstatement-ee-seb | SEB (Estonia), parses proprietary csv file |
| ofxstatement-ee-swedbank | Swedbank (Estonia), parses proprietary csv file |
| ofxstatement-polish | Support for some Polish banks and financial institutions |
| ofxstatement-russian | Support for several Russian banks: Avangard, AlfaBank, Tinkoff, SberBank (both debit and csv), VTB. |
| ofxstatement-is-arionbanki | Arion bank (Iceland) |
| ofxstatement-revolut | Revolut Mastercard |
| ofxstatement-al_bank | Arbejdernes Landsbank (Denmark) |
| ofxstatement-cd-tmb | Trust Merchant Bank (DRC) |
| ofxstatement-zm-stanbic | Stanbic Bank (Zambia) |
| ofxstatement-dutch | Dutch financial institutes like ICSCards and ING |
| ofxstatement-french | French financial institutes like BanquePopulaire |
While ofxstatement can be used without any configuration, some plugins may
accept additional configuration parameters. These parameters can be specified
in a configuration file. The configuration file can be edited using the edit-config
command that opens your favorite editor (defined by environment variable
EDITOR or else the default for your platform) with the configuration file:
$ ofxstatement edit-config
The configuration file format is in the standard .ini format. The
configuration is divided into sections that correspond to the --type
command line parameter. Each section must provide a plugin option that
points to one of the registered conversion plugins. Other parameters are
plugin specific.
A sample configuration file:
[swedbank] plugin = swedbank [danske:usd] plugin = litas-esis charset = cp1257 currency = USD account = LT123456789012345678
Such a configuration will let ofxstatement know about two statement file
formats handled by the plugins swedbank and litas-esis. The litas-esis
plugin will load statements using the cp1257 charset and set a custom currency
and account number. This way, GnuCash will automatically associate the
generated .ofx file with a particular GnuCash account.
To convert the proprietary CSV file danske.csv into the OFX file danske.ofx, run:
$ ofxstatement -t danske:usd danske.csv danske.ofx
Note that configuration parameters are plugin specific. See the plugin documentation for more info.
To use a custom configuration file, pass the -c / --config option:
$ ofxstatement convert -t pluginname -c /path/to/myconfig.ini input.csv output.ofx
ofxstatemnt uses pipenv to manage the development environment and
dependencies:
$ pip install pipenv $ git clone https://github.com/<your_account>/ofxstatement.git $ cd ofxstatement $ pipenv sync --dev
And finally run the test suite:
$ pipenv shell $ pytest
When satisfied, you may create a pull request.
If the plugin for your bank has not been developed yet (see Known plugins section above) you can easily write your own, provided you have some knowledge about the Python programming language. There is an ofxstatement-sample plugin project available that provides sample boilerplate and describes the plugin development process in detail.