Inspired by a comment on my last post.

I feel like I never have a solution that allows me to control it while also being automated to such a degree that I don’t have a huge confusing backup if I don’t do finances for days or weeks.

  • tburkhol@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Super easy, as it turns out. I run my own DNS and web servers, so I pointed quicken.com at my web server to capture the request, then used curl to capture the response. Both turned out to be plain ASCII, request like

    stk.1=SMCI;.2=NVDA;.3=INTC;

    as POST data, and responses like

    qwin.quotes.ASTM.symbol 4 ASTM
    .last 7 18.7400
    .time 10 1573074000
    .time.str 5 16:00
    .change 6 0.4000

    plus a whole slew of other optional fields for fundamentals, dividends, etc. It was a simpler time on the internet, when no one cared about leaking data and companies didn’t care if a handful of geeks reversed engineered their data structures.