.TH "hledger\-web" "1" "January 2018" "hledger\-web 1.5.99" "hledger User Manuals"



.SH NAME
.PP
hledger\-web \- web interface for the hledger accounting tool
.SH SYNOPSIS
.PP
\f[C]hledger\-web\ [OPTIONS]\f[]
.PD 0
.P
.PD
\f[C]hledger\ web\ \-\-\ [OPTIONS]\f[]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
hledger is a cross\-platform program for tracking money, time, or any
other commodity, using double\-entry accounting and a simple, editable
file format.
hledger is inspired by and largely compatible with ledger(1).
.PP
hledger\-web is hledger's web interface.
It starts a simple web application for browsing and adding transactions,
and optionally opens it in a web browser window if possible.
It provides a more user\-friendly UI than the hledger CLI or hledger\-ui
interface, showing more at once (accounts, the current account register,
balance charts) and allowing history\-aware data entry, interactive
searching, and bookmarking.
.PP
hledger\-web also lets you share a ledger with multiple users, or even
the public web.
There is no access control, so if you need that you should put it behind
a suitable web proxy.
As a small protection against data loss when running an unprotected
instance, it writes a numbered backup of the main journal file (only ?)
on every edit.
.PP
Like hledger, it reads data from one or more files in hledger journal,
timeclock, timedot, or CSV format specified with \f[C]\-f\f[], or
\f[C]$LEDGER_FILE\f[], or \f[C]$HOME/.hledger.journal\f[] (on windows,
perhaps \f[C]C:/Users/USER/.hledger.journal\f[]).
For more about this see hledger(1), hledger_journal(5) etc.
.PP
By default, hledger\-web starts the web app in \[lq]transient mode\[rq]
and also opens it in your default web browser if possible.
In this mode the web app will keep running for as long as you have it
open in a browser window, and will exit after two minutes of inactivity
(no requests and no browser windows viewing it).
With \f[C]\-\-serve\f[], it just runs the web app without exiting, and
logs requests to the console.
.PP
By default the server listens on IP address 127.0.0.1, accessible only
to local requests.
You can use \f[C]\-\-host\f[] to change this, eg
\f[C]\-\-host\ 0.0.0.0\f[] to listen on all configured addresses.
.PP
Similarly, use \f[C]\-\-port\f[] to set a TCP port other than 5000, eg
if you are running multiple hledger\-web instances.
.PP
You can use \f[C]\-\-base\-url\f[] to change the protocol, hostname,
port and path that appear in hyperlinks, useful eg for integrating
hledger\-web within a larger website.
The default is \f[C]http://HOST:PORT/\f[] using the server's configured
host address and TCP port (or \f[C]http://HOST\f[] if PORT is 80).
.PP
With \f[C]\-\-file\-url\f[] you can set a different base url for static
files, eg for better caching or cookie\-less serving on high performance
websites.
.PP
Note there is no built\-in access control (aside from listening on
127.0.0.1 by default).
So you will need to hide hledger\-web behind an authenticating proxy
(such as apache or nginx) if you want to restrict who can see and add
entries to your journal.
.PP
Command\-line options and arguments may be used to set an initial filter
on the data.
This is not shown in the web UI, but it will be applied in addition to
any search query entered there.
.PP
With journal and timeclock files (but not CSV files, currently) the web
app detects changes made by other means and will show the new data on
the next request.
If a change makes the file unparseable, hledger\-web will show an error
until the file has been fixed.
.SH OPTIONS
.PP
Note: if invoking hledger\-web as a hledger subcommand, write
\f[C]\-\-\f[] before options as shown above.
.TP
.B \f[C]\-\-serve\f[]
serve and log requests, don't browse or auto\-exit
.RS
.RE
.TP
.B \f[C]\-\-host=IPADDR\f[]
listen on this IP address (default: 127.0.0.1)
.RS
.RE
.TP
.B \f[C]\-\-port=PORT\f[]
listen on this TCP port (default: 5000)
.RS
.RE
.TP
.B \f[C]\-\-base\-url=URL\f[]
set the base url (default: http://IPADDR:PORT).
You would change this when sharing over the network, or integrating
within a larger website.
.RS
.RE
.TP
.B \f[C]\-\-file\-url=URL\f[]
set the static files url (default: BASEURL/static).
hledger\-web normally serves static files itself, but if you wanted to
serve them from another server for efficiency, you would set the url
with this.
.RS
.RE
.PP
hledger input options:
.TP
.B \f[C]\-f\ FILE\ \-\-file=FILE\f[]
use a different input file.
For stdin, use \- (default: \f[C]$LEDGER_FILE\f[] or
\f[C]$HOME/.hledger.journal\f[])
.RS
.RE
.TP
.B \f[C]\-\-rules\-file=RULESFILE\f[]
Conversion rules file to use when reading CSV (default: FILE.rules)
.RS
.RE
.TP
.B \f[C]\-\-alias=OLD=NEW\f[]
rename accounts named OLD to NEW
.RS
.RE
.TP
.B \f[C]\-\-anon\f[]
anonymize accounts and payees
.RS
.RE
.TP
.B \f[C]\-\-pivot\ FIELDNAME\f[]
use some other field or tag for the account name
.RS
.RE
.TP
.B \f[C]\-I\ \-\-ignore\-assertions\f[]
ignore any failing balance assertions
.RS
.RE
.PP
hledger reporting options:
.TP
.B \f[C]\-b\ \-\-begin=DATE\f[]
include postings/txns on or after this date
.RS
.RE
.TP
.B \f[C]\-e\ \-\-end=DATE\f[]
include postings/txns before this date
.RS
.RE
.TP
.B \f[C]\-D\ \-\-daily\f[]
multiperiod/multicolumn report by day
.RS
.RE
.TP
.B \f[C]\-W\ \-\-weekly\f[]
multiperiod/multicolumn report by week
.RS
.RE
.TP
.B \f[C]\-M\ \-\-monthly\f[]
multiperiod/multicolumn report by month
.RS
.RE
.TP
.B \f[C]\-Q\ \-\-quarterly\f[]
multiperiod/multicolumn report by quarter
.RS
.RE
.TP
.B \f[C]\-Y\ \-\-yearly\f[]
multiperiod/multicolumn report by year
.RS
.RE
.TP
.B \f[C]\-p\ \-\-period=PERIODEXP\f[]
set start date, end date, and/or reporting interval all at once using
period expressions syntax (overrides the flags above)
.RS
.RE
.TP
.B \f[C]\-\-date2\f[]
match the secondary date instead (see command help for other effects)
.RS
.RE
.TP
.B \f[C]\-U\ \-\-unmarked\f[]
include only unmarked postings/txns (can combine with \-P or \-C)
.RS
.RE
.TP
.B \f[C]\-P\ \-\-pending\f[]
include only pending postings/txns
.RS
.RE
.TP
.B \f[C]\-C\ \-\-cleared\f[]
include only cleared postings/txns
.RS
.RE
.TP
.B \f[C]\-R\ \-\-real\f[]
include only non\-virtual postings
.RS
.RE
.TP
.B \f[C]\-NUM\ \-\-depth=NUM\f[]
hide/aggregate accounts or postings more than NUM levels deep
.RS
.RE
.TP
.B \f[C]\-E\ \-\-empty\f[]
show items with zero amount, normally hidden (except in
hledger\-ui/hledger\-web)
.RS
.RE
.TP
.B \f[C]\-B\ \-\-cost\f[]
convert amounts to their cost at transaction time (using the transaction
price, if any)
.RS
.RE
.TP
.B \f[C]\-V\ \-\-value\f[]
convert amounts to their market value on the report end date (using the
most recent applicable market price, if any)
.RS
.RE
.TP
.B \f[C]\-\-auto\f[]
apply automated posting rules to modify transactions.
.RS
.RE
.TP
.B \f[C]\-\-forecast\f[]
apply periodic transaction rules to generate future transactions, to 6
months from now or report end date.
.RS
.RE
.PP
When a reporting option appears more than once in the command line, the
last one takes precedence.
.PP
Some reporting options can also be written as query arguments.
.PP
hledger help options:
.TP
.B \f[C]\-h\ \-\-help\f[]
show general usage (or after COMMAND, command usage)
.RS
.RE
.TP
.B \f[C]\-\-version\f[]
show version
.RS
.RE
.TP
.B \f[C]\-\-debug[=N]\f[]
show debug output (levels 1\-9, default: 1)
.RS
.RE
.PP
A \@FILE argument will be expanded to the contents of FILE, which should
contain one command line option/argument per line.
(To prevent this, insert a \f[C]\-\-\f[] argument before.)
.SH ENVIRONMENT
.PP
\f[B]LEDGER_FILE\f[] The journal file path when not specified with
\f[C]\-f\f[].
Default: \f[C]~/.hledger.journal\f[] (on windows, perhaps
\f[C]C:/Users/USER/.hledger.journal\f[]).
.SH FILES
.PP
Reads data from one or more files in hledger journal, timeclock,
timedot, or CSV format specified with \f[C]\-f\f[], or
\f[C]$LEDGER_FILE\f[], or \f[C]$HOME/.hledger.journal\f[] (on windows,
perhaps \f[C]C:/Users/USER/.hledger.journal\f[]).
.SH BUGS
.PP
The need to precede options with \f[C]\-\-\f[] when invoked from hledger
is awkward.
.PP
\f[C]\-f\-\f[] doesn't work (hledger\-web can't read from stdin).
.PP
Query arguments and some hledger options are ignored.
.PP
Does not work in text\-mode browsers.
.PP
Does not work well on small screens.


.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
Report bugs at http://bugs.hledger.org
(or on the #hledger IRC channel or hledger mail list)

.SH AUTHORS
Simon Michael <simon@joyful.com> and contributors

.SH COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2007-2016 Simon Michael.
.br
Released under GNU GPL v3 or later.

.SH SEE ALSO
hledger(1), hledger\-ui(1), hledger\-web(1), hledger\-api(1),
hledger_csv(5), hledger_journal(5), hledger_timeclock(5), hledger_timedot(5),
ledger(1)

http://hledger.org