I got control of my spending with some no-code services and 100 lines of Python
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Re: I got control of my spending with some no-code services and 100 lines of Python
#2Just a nitpick, but the word you’re looking for is discretionary. :)
We would all do well to follow this example though - NIH and reinventing the wheel are huge problems in our profession. Great work!
Re: I got control of my spending with some no-code services and 100 lines of Python
#3But this way you send all your financial transactions through at least 2 additional providers (zapier and google) and your email provider. Not sure if this is worth it.
Re: I got control of my spending with some no-code services and 100 lines of Python
#4But this way you send all your financial transactions through at least 2 additional providers (zapier and google) and your email provider. Not sure if this is worth it.
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Re: I got control of my spending with some no-code services and 100 lines of Python
#5But this way you send all your financial transactions through at least 2 additional providers (zapier and google) and your email provider. Not sure if this is worth it.
I prefer this, the finance is lost in the noise of other traffic and no creds to banks are shared unlike mint.
Re: I got control of my spending with some no-code services and 100 lines of Python
#6Your idea is very nice! I’m going to try it but without the use of zapier, instead I’m going to use python’s smtpd lib to directly receive the emails and parse them. Thanks for sharing
Re: I got control of my spending with some no-code services and 100 lines of Python
#7Would love to see a .procmail rule + scripts to do this without the significant zapier integration.
Re: I got control of my spending with some no-code services and 100 lines of Python
#8I love this...homebrew account aggregation. This is basically what I use Personal Capital for.
Re: I got control of my spending with some no-code services and 100 lines of Python
#9I have been wanting to do this, as I set up the Chase email notifications, but never got motivated to tackle what you used zapier for.
One thing that it seems you could do is use Google sheets for your constants vs coded in the repo. That way if you spend from somewhere new, you can do add that category on the fly by updating your sheet.
Re: I got control of my spending with some no-code services and 100 lines of Python
#10Would love to see a .procmail rule + scripts to do this without the significant zapier integration.
I do essentially this with `imapfilter` and some cronjobs.
The biggest hassle is the fact that each of my banks/financial institutions uses at least half a dozen unique addresses to send me relevant information.