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Ask HN: Is there any US bank with a sandbox or API?

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Re: Ask HN: Is there any US bank with a sandbox or API?

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Post by sjtgraham »

I'm working on Teller (https://teller.io), which is a universal banking API. We don't support any US banks yet (but we certainly plan to), but we will be publishing a sandbox API in the near future along with the GA release of our production APIs.

In the US I recommend you check out Plaid (https://plaid.com), although I believe they offer read only APIs.

There is also the Open Bank Project (https://openbankproject.com) which is also intended as a universal API but I don't believe has any production integrations, although they do have sandbox APIs.

Email address in profile if anyone wants to chat more about this topic.

Re: Ask HN: Is there any US bank with a sandbox or API?

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Post by kylehotchkiss »

jared_smith wrote: post #6
44448 wrote: post #2

Check out https://developer.capitalone.com for three APIs that Capital One has published. There are also open source reference applications at https://github.com/capitalone/ (By way of full disclosure, I work in Capital One's Open Source Office.)

Open source office? cool! (I am a happy customer)

Re: Ask HN: Is there any US bank with a sandbox or API?

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Post by alistproducer2 »

You're going to have to scrape. I'm working on an open source competitor to Mint. I call it POSADA (personal open source automated digital assistant). People run their own scrapers (plu and play, dockerized rasperry pis) so they don't have to trust their credentials and personal data to a 3rd party.

I envision a repository of integrations (ie, scripts for certain sites) so as people create integrations, you share them with the community. There's also a mobile app that allows users to get updates from the assistant, makes requests to it, or give confirmation before the assistant takes action.

Re: Ask HN: Is there any US bank with a sandbox or API?

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Post by firebird84 »

alistproducer2 wrote: post #17

You're going to have to scrape. I'm working on an open source competitor to Mint. I call it POSADA (personal open source automated digital assistant). People run their own scrapers (plu and play, dockerized rasperry pis) so they don't have to trust their credentials and personal data to a 3rd party. I envision a repository of integrations (ie, scripts for certain sites) so as people create integrations, you share the…

Wow, I had this very same idea recently, but I'm glad someone is already working on it! One of the other problems with Mint is that despite their claims to the contrary, it's not exactly actively maintained. Do you have a git link?

Re: Ask HN: Is there any US bank with a sandbox or API?

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Post by throwaway2016a »

alistproducer2 wrote: post #17

You're going to have to scrape. I'm working on an open source competitor to Mint. I call it POSADA (personal open source automated digital assistant). People run their own scrapers (plu and play, dockerized rasperry pis) so they don't have to trust their credentials and personal data to a 3rd party. I envision a repository of integrations (ie, scripts for certain sites) so as people create integrations, you share the…

What about Open Financial Exchange (see my previous comment bellow)?
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