BEAN-EXTRACT(1)

💖 bean-extract(1) — the bestie manual 💖

okay so this is a User Commands page, and it's all about bean-extract, bestie. Let's get into it. 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

bean-extract — extract Beancount transactions from bank statements and similar documents

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

no cap, here's how you call it:

usage: bean-extract [-h] [--version] [-e BEANCOUNT_FILE] [-r]

       CONFIG_FILENAME DIR-OR-FILE [DIR-OR-FILE ...]

Extract transactions from downloads. That's the whole vibe. 💅

🎀 positional arguments:

• CONFIG_FILENAME — the importer configuration file. It's a Python file, and inside it lives a data structure that's specific to your accounts. iykyk. 🐍✨
• DIR-OR-FILE — filenames or directories to search for files to import. You can pass a bunch of them, that's why the synopsis says [DIR-OR-FILE ...]. literally go off. 🦋

👑 options:

• -h, --help — show this help message and exit. classic. ✨
• --version, -V — show program's version number and exit. 🎀
• -e BEANCOUNT_FILE, -f BEANCOUNT_FILE, --existing BEANCOUNT_FILE, --previous BEANCOUNT_FILE — Beancount file or existing entries for de-duplication (optional). yes bestie, that's four different ways to write the same flag. pick your fighter. 💜
• -r, --reverse, --descending — write out the entries in descending order. main character energy, but backwards. 🔥

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k bye ily, this was bean-extract version 2.3.6, dated April 2024 💖 — and that's the whole manual, periodt. 🌈⭐