beancount-repete VS finance-dl

Write in plaintext, get into the weeds of scripting with Python only when ABSOLUTELY necessary (I stumbled across, for instance, a really neat plugin that I can use for 90% of stuff I would otherwise write code for: https://github.com/jpluscplusm/beancount-repete), and treat the journal files as write-only, using the Fava UI as your active, reporting interface. IMHO :-)

Fighting with Mint and categorizing Amazon purchases was what initially pushed me down the path into plain text accounting (PTA).

I ended up long down the rabbit hole with auto-downloading Amazon orders (originally with https://github.com/jbms/finance-dl, but then my own custom scraping) and importing and matching them up with credit card transactions using beancount-import (https://github.com/jbms/beancount-import).

This ultimately resulted in me spending a lot less on Amazon - to the point that now doing it manually wouldn't be too bad...

These HTML are stored in a common folder, then parsed by beancount-import using the built-in importer for Amazon Invoice HTML files from that project. The author of that project wrote/uses finance-dl to get his Amazon invoices. At one point, his download code wasn't working for me, so I wrote my own. Independently, for reasons I no longer remember.