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bunsn / boiler

Simplify the task of exporting financial data from banking websites.
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2018 Activity? #9

Open mwoollen opened 6 years ago

mwoollen commented 6 years ago

Any updates on this project? Any successes? Challenges?

domchristie commented 6 years ago

Hi Mark,

Thanks for your interest. I will hopefully continue to update this project this year. I am currently working on using rollup to build the project (as noted here: https://github.com/bunsn/boiler/issues/8)

This was a personal project which I thought people may find useful, and so released it as open source. At the moment, I'm not particularly promoting it, but just seeing if it gets any interest organically. The main challenges are getting statement definition submissions, and then maintaining them.

Let me know if you'd like any more info.

Thanks again,

Dom

mwoollen commented 6 years ago

Thanks for the response... We are evaluating Yodlee... But there is significant cost to implement. Do you have more info or samples?

Mark

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On Jan 14, 2018 3:17 PM, "Dom Christie" notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi Mark,

Thanks for your interest. I will hopefully continue to update this project this year. I am currently working on using rollup to build the project (as noted here: #8 https://github.com/bunsn/boiler/issues/8)

This was a personal project which I thought people may find useful, and so released it as open source. At the moment, I'm not particularly promoting it, but just seeing if it gets any interest organically. The main challenges are getting statement definition submissions, and then maintaining them.

Let me know if you'd like any more info.

Thanks again,

Dom

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domchristie commented 6 years ago

I suppose there are two sides to getting financial data:

  1. logging in
  2. scraping the data

Due to security/trust issues, bunsn/boiler only deals with point 2 (whereas I think Yodlee deals with both, amongst other things like categorisation). At the moment, boiler is only suited to small personal projects, where the number of required financial institutions it needs to support is small. The bookmarklet is an implementation of boiler: https://github.com/bunsn/boiler-bookmarklet The idea is that you log in to your bank, navigate to a statement, and tap the bookmarklet to get a JSON representation of the statement.

There are some alternatives to Yodlee for aggregating bank data. Plaid looks quite good: https://plaid.com. SaltEdge (https://www.saltedge.com/products/spectre) is another I've heard of, and when trying to recall those, I also found this: https://bbvaopen4u.com/en/actualidad/best-known-banking-data-aggregation-apis

Hope that helps!