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Ask HN: Best way to trigger a webhook every time I swipe my AMEX?

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Re: Ask HN: Best way to trigger a webhook every time I swipe my AMEX?

#11

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Smart idea. I want a little more structured data though, around merchant name and transaction amount.

I expect the emails themselves are just formatted strings. You could use an email parser to get the structure back out. You or someone else mentioned Zapier webhooks, so https://parser.zapier.com/ might be extra relevant.

Ah, haven't heard of parser.zapier.com before. Yes I mentioned Zapier! This could be perfect, will report back.

Re: Ask HN: Best way to trigger a webhook every time I swipe my AMEX?

#13

Free for developers - https://pipedream.com/docs/workflows/steps/triggers/#email

Given AMEX offers SMS notifications, you can also use Twilio (or equivalent) as an event source and send the data to Google sheets: https://pipedream.com/apps/twilio

Re: Ask HN: Best way to trigger a webhook every time I swipe my AMEX?

#15

Amex has a large purchase notification email you can set up. Have it go to a mailbox with a limit of like $0.01 if it will let you and trigger events based on when the email arrives.

I've used this for years, but I believe the minimum is $5 or $10. It's amazing how instant it is most of the time, though. Sometimes I have an email before the card is back in my wallet.

Re: Ask HN: Best way to trigger a webhook every time I swipe my AMEX?

#16

Amex has a large purchase notification email you can set up. Have it go to a mailbox with a limit of like $0.01 if it will let you and trigger events based on when the email arrives.

Yeah this would be very easy to configure with Zapier if you use an email service with filters like gmail: just set a filter rule to auto-forward the email to a Zapier parsing address and you're good to go.

I get notifications from Chase for purchases > $0.

Re: Ask HN: Best way to trigger a webhook every time I swipe my AMEX?

#17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I expect the emails themselves are just formatted strings. You could use an email parser to get the structure back out. You or someone else mentioned Zapier webhooks, so https://parser.zapier.com/ might be extra relevant.

Ah, haven't heard of parser.zapier.com before. Yes I mentioned Zapier! This could be perfect, will report back.

If Zapier Parser doesn't do the job for some reason, hit us up @ https://parseur.com (co-founder here)

Re: Ask HN: Best way to trigger a webhook every time I swipe my AMEX?

#18
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https://github.com/kevinschaich/mintable may be of interest.

Ah yep. This looks amazing. Forking now.

Followup: Just set this up and it works perfectly. Forked the repo and made some formatting changes and set up a Github action to pull in new transactions every hour. The bonus part is I also linked my checking accounts and other credit card, so all my transactions get pulled in to a spreadsheet and formatted how I want them. Thanks for the tip.

Re: Ask HN: Best way to trigger a webhook every time I swipe my AMEX?

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post #15

Amex has a large purchase notification email you can set up. Have it go to a mailbox with a limit of like $0.01 if it will let you and trigger events based on when the email arrives.

I've used this for years, but I believe the minimum is $5 or $10. It's amazing how instant it is most of the time, though. Sometimes I have an email before the card is back in my wallet.

I love reading things like these. Is there a word for the mushy feeling I get when people praise something or someone? 'Giddy' is the closest I can think of, but I'm looking for a word used only in this situation.
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