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Ask HN: How do you save your bank statements?

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Re: Ask HN: How do you save your bank statements?

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I download the statements once a year and also export as a spreadsheet, and store on a laptop and cloud

I wish organisations had a annual batch download for this stuff to make it quicker. I keep thinking ill write a script - but then its quicker to just download one at a time

Re: Ask HN: How do you save your bank statements?

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I download the statements once a year and also export as a spreadsheet, and store on a laptop and cloud I wish organisations had a annual batch download for this stuff to make it quicker. I keep thinking ill write a script - but then its quicker to just download one at a time

Unfortunately some banks only have transaction history going back 6 months or so.

PDF statements are available for longer but they are rather worthless because they are hard to parse.

Re: Ask HN: How do you save your bank statements?

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I download the statements once a year and also export as a spreadsheet, and store on a laptop and cloud I wish organisations had a annual batch download for this stuff to make it quicker. I keep thinking ill write a script - but then its quicker to just download one at a time

It's not a bank, but Amazon lets you download very detailed purchase history as a CSV file (over any time period).

Re: Ask HN: How do you save your bank statements?

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post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If your bank insists on sending you paper find another bank.

What I’m saying it that is easier to scan paper than to deal with scraping bank websites.

If your bank doesn't give you a convenient way to download your data, find another bank.