Bunq2Ynab

Bunq2Ynab is a Python script that synchronizes bunq accounts with YNAB accounts.

You'll need a token from both bunq and YNAB to enable synchronization. Both tokens are hexadecimal and 64 characters long, like 7197c12ef0eae4572dfb85706353e6a98410b3a7bbe598726404072decd1d664.

Create a bunq "API key" in the bunq mobile app. On the profile tab (3rd icon bottom row), click the dots to the top right, then Security & Preferences, then Developers, then API keys, then "Add API Key". Choose to "Reveal" the API key and share it.
Create a YNAB "Personal Access Token" in the YNAB website through the top-left menu, then Account Settings, then Developers. Or you can follow this link straight to the Developers page: https://app.youneedabudget.com/settings/developer. You can only see the full token when you first create it. After that it will never be shown again. The number with XXXX is just a placeholder.

The easiest way to run Bunq2Ynab is in the Amazon cloud. You can also run Bunq2Ynab on a local python installation. Both options are explained below.

Running on AWS (Serverless)

We've published Bunq2Ynab as Serverless application on the Serverless Application Repository. This makes it easy for you to deploy the synchronization in the cloud, without running it yourself. Because of the Serverless approach costs should only be a couple of cents a month at most.

Deploying the function

Navigate to the Serverless Application Repository.
Click Available Applications, then Public applications, select Show apps that create custom IAM roles or resource policies and search for bunq-ynab-aws-lambda.
Enter your BunqApiToken, YnabAccessToken. You can keep YnabBudget as *.

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Check the I acknowledge that this app creates custom IAM roles. checkbox. An IAM role has to be created to store configuration in Systems Manager Parameter Store.

Updating the config

Bunq2Ynab will automatically match accounts by name. If your names match you can continue to 'Activating Sync'.

We strongly recommend that you name your accounts in YNAB and Bunq the same. You only need to alter the configuration IF your Ynab account names do NOT match your Bunq account names.

To alter the configuration:

Navigate to Systems Manager Parameter Console.
Click bunq2ynab-config, and select edit. Populate as follows, make sure you JSON is valid.

{
  "api_token": "AlreadySet",
  "personal_access_token": "AlreadySet",
  "accounts": [
    {
      "bunq_account_name": "your bunq account name",
      "ynab_budget_name": "your ynab budget name",
      "ynab_account_name": "your ynab account name"
    },
    {
      "bunq_account_name": "another bunq account name",
      "ynab_budget_name": "another ynab budget",
      "ynab_account_name": "another ynab account"
    }
  ]
}

Here's a screenshot of the account and budget names in the YNAB website and the bunq app:

location of account and budget name

Activating Sync

After the deployment has finished, navigate to the Lambda console
Click the function (It should look something like serverlessrepo-bunq-ynab-aws-lam-Bunq2YnabFunction-<GUID>
Create a test event, you can accept the default hello-world example.

testevent1

testevent2 4. Finally Click Test to execute the function once. This will activate the sync from Bunq2Ynab.

In the log's you'll see set_callbacks | Adding callback MUTATION:.

Done! Your transactions should now sync automatically.

Local Python installation

Bunq2Ynab requires Python 3.5 or higher. Install this however you like; on my Raspberry Pi with Raspbian, it's sudo apt-get python3. You can install the required Python packages with your OS's version of pip3 install -r requirements.txt.

Clone the repository:

git clone git@github.com:wesselt/bunq2ynab.git

Create a file "config.json" with contents like the one below. You can enter * or omit the row entirely to have Bunq2Ynab match accounts by name. Note that if you wildcard the YNAB budget name, one bunq account may end up synching with multiple YNAB accounts in different budgets.

{
  "api_token": "your bunq api key",
  "personal_access_token": "your ynab personal access token",
  "accounts": [
    {
      "bunq_account_name": "your bunq account name",
      "ynab_budget_name": "your ynab budget name",
      "ynab_account_name": "your ynab account name"
    }
  ]
}

Verify that the link with bunq works by requesting the list of users and accounts:

python3 list_user.py

Verify that the link with YNAB works by requesting the list of budgets:

python3 list_budget.py

Manual synchronization

The bunq2ynab.py script synchronizes once. You can run this from a cron job to synchronize on a schedule.

python3 bunq2ynab.py

For the first run, you can add --start 2022-12-31 to specify the start time, or --all synchronize all transactions.

Automatic synchronization

Run auto_sync.py to set up a callback and start listening for push notifications. If you have a private IP, the script will look for a UPNP gateway and set up a port forward.

python3 auto_sync.py

Auto sync tries to run as reliably as possible. Every 8 hours it refreshes the port forward. This way it keeps working when your ISP assigned IP changes. After refreshing the port forward, auto_synch synchronizes even if it has not received a callback.

Email on error

These configuration settings configure the email capability:

{
  "smtp_user": "example@gmail.com",
  "smtp_password": "xxx",
  "smtp_server": "smtp.google.com"
}

Optionally you can configure number of errors that occur before a mail is sent (the default is 5.) You can also specify the email to and from:

  "mail_after_errors": 1,
  "smtp_from": "bunq2ynab@some.where",
  "smtp_to": "example@gmail.com"

systemd script

Adding autosync as a systemd service

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/autosync.service

Copy paste script below

start

[Unit] Description=Autosync BUNQ2YNAB script

[Service] User=beninho ExecStart=/usr/bin/python3 /pool/apps/bunq2ynab/auto_sync.py Restart=always

[Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target

end

sudo systemctl enable autosync.service sudo systemctl start autosync.service systemctl status autosync.service

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