External Contributions to Beancount
Martin Blais - Updated: April 2016
http://furius.ca/beancount/doc/contrib
Links to codes written by other people that build on top of
or that are related to Beancount and/or Ledgerhub.
Plugins
split_transactions: Johann Klähn wrote a plugin that can split a single transaction into many against a limbo account, as would be done for depreciation.
zerosum: redstreet0 wrote a plugin to match up transactions that when taken together should sum up to zero and move them to a separate account.
effective_dates: redstreet0 wrote a plugin to book different legs of a transaction to different dates
depreciation: Alok Parlikar wrote a plugin to automatically add entries at the EOY for the depreciation of assets.
beancount-plugins: Dave Stephens created a repository to share various of his plugins related to depreciation.
beancount-plugins-zack: Stefano Zacchiroli created this repository to share his plugins.
beancount-oneliner: Akuukis created a plugin to write an entry in one line (PyPi).
beancount-interpolate: Akuukis created plugins for Beancount to interpolate transactions (recur, split, depr, spread) (PyPi).
metadata-spray: Add metadata across entries by regex expression rather than having explicit entries (by Vivek Gani).
Tools
alfred-beancount (Yue Wu): An add-on to the “Alfred” macOS tool to quickly enter transactions in one’s Beancount file. Supports full account names and payees match.
bean-add (Simon Volpert): A Beancount transaction entry assistant.
hoostus/fincen_114 (Justus Pendleton): A FBAR / FinCEN 114 report generator.
ghislainbourgeois/beancount_portfolio_allocation (Ghislain Bourgeois): A quick way to figure out the asset allocations in different portfolios.
hoostus/portfolio-returns (Justus Pendleton): portfolio returns calculator
redstreet/beancount_assert_allocation (Red S): allocation analysis tool to understand the asset allocation of a portfolio.
costflow/syntax (Leplay Li): A product that allows users to keep plain text accounting from their favorite messaging apps. A syntax for converting one-line message to beancount/*ledger format.
process control chart (Justus Pendleton): Spending relative to portfolio size. Thread.
Importers
yodlee importer: redstreet0 wrote an importer for fetching data from the Yodlee account aggregator. Apparently you can get free access as per this thread.
plaid2text: An importer from Plaid which stores the transactions to a Mongo DB and is able to render it to Beancount syntax. By Micah Duke.
jbms/beancount-import: A tool for semi-automatically importing transactions from external data sources, with support for merging and reconciling imported transactions with each other and with existing transactions in the beancount journal. The UI is web based. (Announcement, link to previous version). By Jeremy Maitin-Shepard.
awesome-beancount: A collection of importers for Chinese banks + tips and tricks. By Zhuoyun Wei.
beansoup: Filippo Tampieri is sharing some of his Beancount importers and auto-completer in this project.
montaropdf/beancount-importers: An importer to extract overtime and vacation from a timesheet format for invoicing customers.
siddhantgoel/beancount-dkb (Siddhant Goel): importer for DKB CSV files.
Converters
plaid2text: Python Scripts to export Plaid transactions and transform them into Ledger or Beancount syntax formatted files.
gnucash-to-beancount: A script from Henrique Bastos to convert a GNUcash SQLite database into an equivalent Beancount input file.
debanjum/gnucash-to-beancount: A fork of the above.
andrewStein/gnucash-to-beancount : A further fork from the above two, which fixes a lot of issues (see this thread).
hoostus/beancount-ynab : A converter from YNAB to Beancount.
hoostus/beancount-ynab5 : Same convert for YNAB from the same author, but for the more recent version 5.
ledger2beancount: A script to convert ledger files to beancount. It was developed by Stefano Zacchiroli and Martin Michlmayr.
smart_importer: A smart importer for beancount and fava, with intelligent suggestions for account names. By Johannes Harms.
beancount-export-patreon.js: JavaScript that will export your Patreon transactions so you can see details of exactly who you've been giving money to. By kanepyork@gmail.
alensiljak/pta-converters (Alen Šiljak): GnuCash -> Beancount converter (2019).
grostim/Beancount-myTools (Timothee Gros): Personal importer tools of the author for French banks.
Price Sources
hoostus/beancount-price-sources : A Morningstar price fetcher which aggregates multiple exchanges, including non-US ones.
andyjscott/beancount-financequote : Finance::Quote support for bean-price.
aamerabbas/beancount-coinmarketcap: Price fetcher for coinmarketcap (see post).
grostim/Beancount-myTools/.../iexcloud.py : Price fetcher for iexcloud by Timothee Gros.
Development
Py3k type annotations: Yuchen Ying is implementing python3 type annotations for Beancount.
Documentation
Beancount Source Code Documentation (Dominik Aumayr): Sphinx-generated source code documentation of the Beancount codebase. The code to produce this is located here.
Beancount-docs to Markdown (xuhcc@ / Kirill Goncharov): Another conversion of the Google Docs using pandoc. Has less conversion artifacts.
SQL queries for Beancount (Dominik Aumayr): Example SQL queries.
Beancount —— 命令行复式簿记 (Zhuoyun Wei): A tutorial (blog post) in Chinese on how to use Beancount.
Managing my personal finances with Beancount (Alex Johnstone)
Counting beans—and more—with Beancount (LWN)
Interfaces / Web
fava: A web interface for Beancount (Dominik Aumayr): Beancount comes with its own simple web front-end (“bean-web”) intended merely as a thin shell to invoke and display HTML versions of its reports. “Fava” is an alternative web application front-end with more & different features, intended initially as a playground and proof-of-concept to explore a newer, better design for presenting the contents of a Beancount file.
Fava Classy Portfolio (Vivek Gani): Classy Portfolio is an Extension for Fava, a web interface for the Beancount plaintext accounting software. The extension displays a list of different portfolios (e.g. 'taxable' vs. 'retirement'), with breakdowns using 'asset-class' and 'asset-subclass' metadata labels on commodities.
Mobile/Phone Data Entry
Beancount Mobile App (Kirill Goncharov): A mobile data entry app for Beancount. (Currently only Android is supported.) Repo: https://github.com/xuhcc/beancount-mobile (Annoucement).