hledger and GnuCash

Tips for co-using/converting/switching GnuCash and hledger.

Relevant data conversion tools include:

• Old 2.x versions of Ledger had some ability to read one of GnuCash's data formats
• gnucash2ledger.py (2014, python, reads SQLite)
• piecash (2015, python, reads SQLite/MySQL/Postgres)
• gnucash-to-beancount (2017, python, reads SQLite) (then use beancount2ledger)
• gcash2ledger.py (2018, python, reads uncompressed XML)
• gnucash2ledger (2023, python, reads compressed/uncompressed XML)

Related discussion:

• Import Gnucash Files #332
• GnuCash and ledger combination
• Current working gnucash exporter?
• https://www.reddit.com/r/plaintextaccounting/comments/16xhjm5/command_line_vs_gui how to export from hledger to gnucash
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37954925 using gnucash and hledger