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actualbudget / import-ynab5

A tool for importing YNAB5 (nYNAB) data into Actual
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Updated the README #13

Closed amnuts closed 2 years ago

amnuts commented 2 years ago

I had to assist my wife in importing our budget from YNAB into Actual today, but it wasn't clear at all how to get the budget json data, or any of the other steps required if you weren't already familiar with APIs, node, npm, etc.

So thought I'd pad that information out a bit in case anyone else found the link to the importer on a message board and wanted to give it a go.

kazzazed commented 2 years ago

Note for newbies, the updated readme has the commands running in WLS (bash). That did not work for me, the Importer can’t connect to actual from WLS. Maybe there is further dev enviro that would fix that, but unless you already are running WLS it is unnecessary. Just install Node.js on W10 and you should be able to execute the command for installation in Windows Powershell (without Bash)

amnuts commented 2 years ago

Note for newbies, the updated readme has the commands running in WLS (bash). That did not work for me, the Importer can’t connect to actual from WLS. Maybe there is further dev enviro that would fix that, but unless you already are running WLS it is unnecessary. Just install Node.js on W10 and you should be able to execute the command for installation in Windows Powershell (without Bash)

I performed all of those commands on a machine without WSL installed; stock W10 using Powershell... Which commands are you thinking were bash specific?

If you're thinking it needs bash because the readme has "```bash" in the text, that's just for markdown highlighting.

jlongster commented 2 years ago

Thanks a lot! I'll add a note about WSL