Project is work in progress.

Command Line Interface (CLI) Tool for using the Kontist API which under the hood relies on their marvelous GraphQL API Kontist Javascript SDK

Overview

• login and use multiple account(s)
• show status & current balance
• list & filter transaction(s)
• subscribe to incoming transactions
• create transfer
• list, show, block, unblock card(s)

See list of "ideas" for upcoming features …

Install

npm install kontist-cli

NPX

npx kontist-cli

Setup

Obtain valid client id for authentication. Request your client id in the API Client Management on https://kontist.dev/client-management/.

Create Access- & Refresh Token (valid for 1year) and store in system user preferences (using nconf package):

kontist-cli login <oauth-client-id> <username>

You’ll be promted for the password. There’s also the ability to setup multiple accounts.

Examples

The command-line-tool does not include any table formater or filtering mechanism as there are other nice tools for that like table-printer-cli for formatting JSON output to a nice-looking table and jq for transforming and filtering JSON.

Transactions

Both tools in combination can be used to create a nice-looking, customizable list of transactions:

kontist-cli transactions | jq -c 'map({bookingDate,valutaDate,amount,name,iban})' | npx table-printer-cli -s

List transactions between two dates:

kontist-cli transactions --from 2022-02-01 --to 2022-02-28

Transfer

Create a standing order that repeats every month

kontist-cli transfer 3000 GB33BUKB20201555555555 "Hulk Hogan" "Wrestling Club Membership fee" \
    --note "created after entering the wrestling club" \
    --repeat MONTHLY \
    --last 2022-12-31

Wait until you receive the confirmation code and enter it when prompted. You’ll also get a confirmation before the transaction is made.

Locale

Some commands rely on the systems LC_ALL, LC_TIME, or LC_NUMERIC variables to format monetary values or provide additional formatted dates. The balance sub-command:

$ LC_ALL=de-de kontist-cli balance
50,20 €

Output

All comands print out JSON to make it easy to filter and process the output using jq and other tools like [ctp(table-printer-cli)

Ideas

• balance (kontist-cli balance, returns availableBalance)
  • get current balance
  • different output when availableBalance doesn’t match balance
  • add notification when card fraud is on
• option to permanently set different LC_ALL
• status command returns current overall status (kontist-cli account)
• validate IBAN (checksum)
• prevent invalid characters in purpose, e2eid
• add multiple output formats
  • --pretty as table
  • --json as json (default)
  • --plain as tsv (easy for additional processing with xargs)
• multi-account
  • add account (name defaults to "default")

    kontist-cli account login --account myalias <client-id> <username>
    

  • add account with named alias

    kontist-cli account login --name myAlias <client-id> <username>
    

  • list accounts kontist-cli accounts list
  • remove account with alias kontist-cli account delete <alias>
  • use specific account

    kontist-cli transfer create --account accountName <iban> <recipient> <amount>
    

• cards
  • list kontist-cli cards list
    • including card settings
    • including card limits
  • get specific card kontist-cli cards <id>
  • block kontist-cli cards block <id> (changeCardStatus)
  • unblock kontist-cli cards unblock <id> (changeCardStatus)
  • replace kontist-cli cards replace <id> (replaceCard)
  • reorder kontist-cli cards reorder <id> (reorderCard)
  • update card settings / limits
• invoice
  • list
  • update invoice
    • add product
    • remove product
  • create invoice
  • delete invoice
• money format?
• currency?
• transfers
  • make it easier to repeat transactions
    • proposal: re-use transactions by id
    • proposal: auto-completion for kontist-cli transfer arguments
    • proposal: address-book like presets?
  • list
  • cancel (mutation cancelTransfer & confirmCancelTransfer)

    kontist-cli transfer cancel <id>
    

  • create
    • enable IBAN with spacing
    • convert umlauts to eu, ß to ss
    • normal order

      kontist-cli transfer create [amount] [iban] [recipient] [purpose] \     --executeAt <executionDate>
      

    • confirmation mfa
    • timed order

      kontist-cli transfer create [amount] [iban] [recipient] [purpose] \
          --at <executionDate>
      

    • standing order with additional StandingOrderReoccurenceType

      kontist-cli transfer create [amount] [iban] [recipient] [purpose] \
          --executeAt <executionDate>` \
          --last <optionalDate> \
          --repeat <reoccurenceType>;
      

  • update
    • update standing order
    • categorize transaction (TransactionCategory)
• transactions
  • list
    • limit transactions
    • search transactions
    • paginate transactions
    • filter transactions
      • by iban(s)
      • short filter for incoming / outgoing

        kontist-cli transactions list --outgoing
        kontist-cli transactions list --incoming
        

      • by date-range

        kontist-cli transactions list --from 2021-01-01 --to 2021-02-32
        

      • by date-range names

        kontist-cli transactions list this-month;
        kontist-cli transactions list last-month;
        kontist-cli transactions list this-year;
        kontist-cli transactions list today;
        kontist-cli transactions list yesterday;
        

  • listen for new transactions (https://kontist.dev/sdk/#subscribe-to-new-transactions)
• cli auto-completion
• cli tui interface
  • list transactions
  • show details of transaction
  • new transaction
• maintenance tasks
  • publish on NPM
  • use version from package.json
  • setup semantic release
  • setup discussions

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• Netnexus/IKontist
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• Teller CLI
• mbank cli
• Kontist GraphQL Schema Reference
• Kontist DEV
• Kontist GraphQL Playground