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# ofxgo
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A library for querying OFX servers and parsing the responses and an example
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command-line client.
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## Goals
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The main purpose of this project is to provide a library to make it easier to
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query financial information with OFX from the comfort of Golang, without having
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to marshal/unmarshal to SGML or XML. The library does *not* intend to abstract
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away all of the details of the OFX specification, which would be very difficult
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to do well. Instead, it exposes the OFX SGML/XML hierarchy as structs which
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mostly resemble it.
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Because the OFX specification is rather... 'comprehensive,' it can be difficult
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for those unfamiliar with it to figure out where to start. To that end, I have
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created a sample command-line client which uses the library to do simple tasks
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(currently it does little more than list accounts and query for balances and
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transactions). My hope is that by studying its code, new users will be able to
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figure out how to use the library much faster than staring at the OFX
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specification (or this library's API documentation). The command-line client
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also serves as an easy way for me to test/debug the library with actual
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financial institutions, which frequently have 'quirks' in their implementations.
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The command-line client can be found in the [cmd/ofx
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directory](https://github.com/aclindsa/ofxgo/tree/master/cmd/ofx) of this
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repository.
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## Library documentation
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Documentation can be found with the `go doc` tool, or at
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https://godoc.org/github.com/aclindsa/ofxgo
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## Using the command-line client
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To install the command-line client and test it out, you may do the following:
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$ go get -v github.com/aclindsa/ofxgo/cmd/ofx && go install -v github.com/aclindsa/ofxgo/cmd/ofx
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Once installed (at ~/go/bin/ofx by default, if you haven't set $GOPATH), the
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command's usage should help you to use it (`./ofx --help` for a listing of the
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available subcommands and their purposes, `./ofx subcommand --help` for
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individual subcommand usage).
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