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Hibiscus Payment Server – HBCI banking

johayek
With the hibiscus-server running on (let’s say) your current machine at port 8080 (AKA https://localhost:8080), you have a few rather useful services available:
I would love to see this running on my Synology NAS at home with plenty of Internet bandwith available, so that I can get my bank account transactions updated over the Internet a few times each day.  (Update: For whatever reason hibiscus/jameica  do not run as expected on my NAS.  I ran out of time investigating this.)
These days Synology does not supply Java on their devices – I assume, they do not want to get officially bothered with Java difficulties on their devices. But still here I found a description of how to install Oracle Java SE on a Synology NAS:
With the “https://localhost:8080/webadmin/rest/hibiscus/konto/…” REST services listed above I get hold off account data rather, rather easily like this:

$ curl –sslv3 –insecure
–user jameica:PASSWORD
https://localhost:8080/webadmin/rest/hibiscus/konto/list

Now I prefer developing software using Perl, and I will make use of the JSON lists in Perl, and that should be rather easy. I think, I am going to abandon my web-scraping scripts in Perl, once all this is in place. Web-scraping banking web-sites is a rather tedious business, whereas HBCI/FinTS is a confirmed banking standard in this country (Germany), and I consider the Hibiscus Server as a rather easy way to deal with the HBCI Moloch AKA FinTS.

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update 2014-04-23:

(To be continued…)

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