interactive-brokers-flex-rs

Tools to assist with IB Flex reports and Ledger

The crate is incomplete but there are funcioning parts. These can be seen in Tests.

This crate contains a CLI and a library which assist with Flex Reports from Interactive Brokers. There are several components involved:

• CLI ibflex uses the ibflex library
• ibflex library exposes the following functionality
  • downloans the Flex report (incomplete)
  • runs the comparison for the downloaded Cash Transactions Flex .xml report and the last 60 days in Ledger (incomplete)
  • parses IB Flex report
  • runs Ledger command to retrieve the distribution transactions in the last 60 days (incomplete)
• pricedb crate (repo) uses a database which contains the list of securities with the Symbol mapping between IB Flex report and Ledger. I.e. symbol VHYL in the report is VHYL_AS in Ledger. The package is a dependency of ibflex but must be configured manually.

Usage

Prior to running, you may need to configure the required parameters in the configuration file ibflex.toml, which is located in the current directory.

Configuration

To view the current configuration, run

ibflex cfg

This will display the current parameters.

If the file does not exist, it will be automatically created by this command.

To edit the values, use any text editor.

Download

The required parameters for downloading the Flex report are:

• flex_query_id
• ib_token

Once this is set up, invoke the CLI:

ifblex dl