kontify

Polls your bank accounts and sends notifications for new transactions (and stores them in a database)

This is a (more or less) simple python script that retrieves statements for your bank accounts (via FinTS/HBCI 3.0), stores them in a database and notifies you of new ones.

Currently supported/required:

• python 3.x (tested with 3.6.5, but 3.3 onwards should be ok) with modules python-fints and mt-940
• SQLite for storing accounts and statements
• Telegram (optionally, for notifications)

Installation

• clone repo or download archive and unpack
• install fints module (e.g. with pip3 install), requires mt940. install yaml and urllib3 modules.
• copy kontify.yaml.example to kontify.yaml and put in your banking data and access settings
• create the database with sqlite3 kontify.sqlite < sqlite.txt
• run DEBUG=1 DUMMY=1 ./kontify.py 1 to see if it works
• run ./kontify.py 100 to fetch some data (most banks will only give you one or three months of data)
• add cronjob (with crontab -e), e.g. 13 * * * * cd ~/kontify && ./kontify.py
• by default, new statements are just printed out, so your cron daemon will send you an email
• if you want Telegram notifications, you need
  • a bot token, see https://core.telegram.org/bots#6-botfather. Note that the Username of your bot has to be globally unique, so use something specific like JakobsKontifyBot
  • your chat id. start a chat with your new bot and send it some random message talk (you can delete it afterwards). fetch the message with curl -s 'https://api.telegram.org/botYOUR_BOT_TOKEN/getUpdates (you can pipe it to something like json_pp to get a nicer output) and find the json field named "id" in result, message.chat or message.from, where also your name should appear (otherwise somebody else sent your bot a message, but that's quite unlikely).