[Almost OT] Interfacing with GNUCash

Mike Bonner bonnmike at gmail.com
Mon Mar 2 21:41:34 EST 2015


Ah, didn't know it was abandonware, Sounds like waiting till you can use
the c api is probably the best way, unless you know enough c (I don't) to
write an intermediate executable that you can shell to.  I did see some php
stuff too, but suspect it never got off the ground.

On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 7:36 PM, Peter W A Wood <peterwawood at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi again Mike.
>
> I found this -
> https://github.com/loftx/gnucash-rest/blob/master/gnucash_core_c.py <
> https://github.com/loftx/gnucash-rest/blob/master/gnucash_core_c.py> -
> but it appears to have been abandoned. However, it might come in handy with
> working out how to use the C API>
>
> Best regards
>
> Peter
>
> > On 3 Mar 2015, at 08:20, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hmm, just read something that seems to indicate gnucash has a rest api.
> If
> > I can find a useful link I'll pop it in here.
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 5:19 PM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I went looking for the API, and most of the pertinent sections are
> >> non-links, in a list of links.  There IS some info on interfacing
> python,
> >> and c also.  For now, unless you want to build an external, python is
> >> probably the way to go, using shell calls from lc.
> >>
> >> Google gnucash api and see if theres enough info there to get you
> started.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 5:16 PM, Peter W A Wood <peterwawood at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>>> On 3 Mar 2015, at 00:24, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> I haven't, but I'm curious: why GNUCash?
> >>>
> >>> It is more than sufficient for me to keep my company accounts, it works
> >>> well on Mac and the price can’t be beaten. I haven’t encountered any
> >>> problems with it but my use of it is very basic.
> >>>
> >>> Regards
> >>>
> >>> Peter
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