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AppleScript/Any-sort-of-automation support?
sbergmann
Mac Beta Beta
Hello,
Apologies if that's the wrong category but I couldn't really find a suitable one...
I see some posts floating around the forum that seem to imply that Quicken has AppleScript support yet it really doesn't look like it from my end (Quicken appears greyed out when trying to add it to Script Editor's dictionaries).
Specifically what I'm trying to do is to implement a workaround for unsupported financial institutions based on sms transaction notifications. I already figured out how to get this data from the Messages app database and now I'm trying to figure out what's the cleanest/most correct way to get the data into Quicken.
It seems odd to me that the most veteran personal finance software wouldn't have any automation interface whatsoever while relative newcomers such as YNAB already have elaborate APIs to interact with their data.
Am I missing something?
Apologies if that's the wrong category but I couldn't really find a suitable one...
I see some posts floating around the forum that seem to imply that Quicken has AppleScript support yet it really doesn't look like it from my end (Quicken appears greyed out when trying to add it to Script Editor's dictionaries).
Specifically what I'm trying to do is to implement a workaround for unsupported financial institutions based on sms transaction notifications. I already figured out how to get this data from the Messages app database and now I'm trying to figure out what's the cleanest/most correct way to get the data into Quicken.
It seems odd to me that the most veteran personal finance software wouldn't have any automation interface whatsoever while relative newcomers such as YNAB already have elaborate APIs to interact with their data.
Am I missing something?
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Quicken 2015/16/17 had AppleScript support. I never found anything provided to be useful and therefore never used it. Because of this, I didn't even notice until your post that it appears to have been removed in Q2018+. Based on what I know about the earlier Quicken AppleScipt implementation, I seriously doubt you would have been able to use it to import this transaction data.
I do quite a bit of automation of Quicken using Keyboard Maestro (www.keyboardmaestro.com). You may be able to accomplish your goal using this tool. Doing so would involve a real time simulation of manual entries, but it may work for you.Quicken Mac Subscription; Quicken Mac user since the early 90s5
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Quicken 2015/16/17 had AppleScript support. I never found anything provided to be useful and therefore never used it. Because of this, I didn't even notice until your post that it appears to have been removed in Q2018+. Based on what I know about the earlier Quicken AppleScipt implementation, I seriously doubt you would have been able to use it to import this transaction data.
I do quite a bit of automation of Quicken using Keyboard Maestro (www.keyboardmaestro.com). You may be able to accomplish your goal using this tool. Doing so would involve a real time simulation of manual entries, but it may work for you.Quicken Mac Subscription; Quicken Mac user since the early 90s5 -
Thanks!
I suspected as much...
I think for my specific use case it might be easier to simply generate an importable file though0
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