Would there be any interest in a PowerShell module for SelfWealth?

[4lilcubs]

Hi Everyone,

I'm a fairly new investor and wanted a way I could track my portfolio locally but couldn't find a simple and free way of doing that automatically.

I know some PowerShell and though I would just see what I could see and before I knew it I had a working module that I could use to:

• Login
• Get my portfolio details
• Get my trade history
• Get the "top members"
• Get the "top stocks"
• Get minute-by-minute performance data

There are a couple of other functions that I have started working on but aren't complete yet.

Would this be something other people could use? I know there was some interest a couple of months ago for a proper API. Even though this isn't a proper API, you can pull a decent amount of information. If there is a desire for it, I'll continue to work on and document it and I'll also tidy the code up a bit so that others can use it.

Cheers

 

[arrow_24]

@4lilcubs I'd like to write a script to make trades which would automate DCA investing

 

[4lilcubs]

@arrow_24 Currently my module only reads information. If there was a large demand, I might be able to cobble something together but I would much prefer to keep it read only.

 

[richardb]

@arrow_24 I'm also looking into writing a script for this. Turns out the options for API stock trading are pretty limited in AUS though

 

[ngoinhatd]

@arrow_24 Try Pearler

 

[clmorgan]

@4lilcubs How are you pulling the data down? HTML scraping? Or does Self Wealth expose an API?

 

[4lilcubs]

@clmorgan They have an undocumented API. I know it's something they're likely working on but I'm impatient.

 

[truthvsmedia]

@4lilcubs I wanted to analyse the webpages myself to peep at the API calls, is this what you’re doing?

All I want is some automation so I can send money to the account, detect it’s above a threshold and buy whatever is undervalued in my portfolio.

No different to adding extra contributions to super.

 

[4lilcubs]

@truthvsmedia Yeah, I'm just using the browser dev tools and then translating that to PowerShell and adding some formatting etc.

I think it would be possible to do what you're after. I already have the available cash balance as per the first screenshot. I also have the details of the portfolio so you would be able to look for percentage thresholds if that's what you're after. I have the information for trade history/outstanding trades so you could monitor for when they complete too. The only part I don't have is the post to execute the trades

 

[truthvsmedia]

@4lilcubs Testing that one could get tricky.

“Ooops! Off by one error in my loop and now I’m broke!”

 

[4lilcubs]

@truthvsmedia haha jokes on you I'm already broke!

It shouldn't be too difficult but yes, with any automated system you could easily make a mistake.

 

[andywilliams]

@4lilcubs I'm curious what made you go PS?

 

[4lilcubs]

@andywilliams I use it daily for work and it's the programming language that I'm most comfortable with. I could probably also do it in python if I wanted to but it was really just a proof of concept that snowballed.

 

[andywilliams]

@4lilcubs Nice. I'm also a programmer, this is a cool idea. Let me know if you put a repo up. I'd love to see it.

 

[4lilcubs]

@andywilliams I'm a sysadmin, not a programmer or I would probably use a real language like c lol. There seems to be some interest so I'll probably tidy up the code and write some doco then post it.

 

[4lilcubs]

@andywilliams Send me a DM and I'll share my initial version with you.

 

[julesg]

@4lilcubs Would be interested in seeing python.
Powershell not as interested.
But it's your project. You do what you like.

 

[stacieleigh]

@4lilcubs If you get it going in github I'd love to help out! Powershell4lyfe

 

[4lilcubs]

@stacieleigh It's on GitHub at the moment but in a private repo. If I make it public, PRs would be awesome.

 

[4lilcubs]

@stacieleigh Send me a DM and I'll share my initial version with you.