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If you don't care about spreadsheets specifically -- if you're just looking for scriptable access to your financials -- Lunch Money (https://lunchmoney.app) has a public API. They'll also be opening the beta of rollover budgeting any day now, which has me excited!
In case people are unaware Excel supports this natively – https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2020/06/1...
Another option in this space is Tiller ( https://www.tillerhq.com/ ). They seem well-established, and offer some spreadsheet templates for plug-and-play solutions to some common budgeting scenarios. If you don't care about spreadsheets specifically -- if you're just looking for scriptable access to your financials -- Lunch Money ( https://lunchmoney.app ) has a public API. They'll also be opening the beta of rollover…
Hmm, this tweet lists some other Plaid alternatives - Yodlee, which I heard of but forgot about, and Quovo, which I don't remember hearing of https://twitter.com/knitesh/status/1292605236805169152
Connecting my bank account to google sheets: -1000000
I do see the intention and the utility - people should be able to easily access and make sense of their data from whatever source and in whatever form. That you are enabling that and showcasing examples is admirable.
Google services in particular are so deeply exposed across people's devices and accounts, past and present, that they have for a long time been one of the largest attack surfaces:
- for incidental or targeted fraud from a distance
- for intrusion by personal contacts: stalking, coercive control
- for relinquishing control of personal data unintentionally: to an employer, to a state, or to arbitrary contacts by oversight because it's incredibly hard to track the myriad dimensions of sharing permissions
In general I applaud what you're doing. I would love to see an example of how to have insight into and oversight of your banking data on your own machine, with a focus on privacy - that's missing from the ecosystem I think.
I haven't used its online data-fetching features, but instead save manually save OFX and QFX files periodically from banking Web sites, and later import them into GnuCash (which includes transaction matchup features). I also use the statement reconciliation features.
I save all the OFX, QFX, and PDF files separately, in case I ever want to do something different with the data. (One of my financial services won't let you download transaction data older than 90 days, and most of my services won't let you download data or statements more than 1-2 years old.)
haha, sure, because google needs more of your data, and whatever this nordigen thing is... laughable from this nordigen's information handling section in TOS > 2.3. As the Services also allow User to upload Information and/or obtain Account Information and personal data therein, User further acknowledges and agrees that by uploading or entering any Information for the Services and by using the Services, User grants N…
So this tool helps me share my transaction history with something called Nordigen and... Google? Is this a joke?
How is this even remotely acceptable blows my mind. My alternatives to transfer money into these fintech companies are checks (are we in the 90s?) or wire transfer (20$ each).
I understand the need for limits, but 2500 rows x 7 columns?! This isn't exactly "Big Data."
Thank you for sharing these tools.
So this tool helps me share my transaction history with something called Nordigen and... Google? Is this a joke?
Wait until you hear about this company called Plaid (valued at ~13B$) which is used by a lot of FinTech companies to access your bank account. They take your username/password in cleartext and go ahead and scrape and do as they please with the data to prevent fraud (oh and if 2fa blocks them from scraping, they'll ask you to disable it). How is this even remotely acceptable blows my mind. My alternatives to transfer…