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mint is built off of yodlee's service (http://yodlee.com/ http://yodlee.com/) which does all of the communication with banks. i'm not sure if they're even usin
by there 17y ago
mint is built off of yodlee's service (http://yodlee.com/ http://yodlee.com/) which does all of the communication with banks. i'm not sure if they're even using OFX anymore because they don't authenticate the same way (mint doesn't require your bank logins).
- drawkbox 17y agoI didn't realize mint used a third party (Yodlee) for that. Currently many banks only provide that type of access (OFX). I use mint and it requires bank logins though... Looks like Yodlee uses OFX and screen scraping? Doesn't seem so safe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=830236 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=830236
- sriramk 17y agoI remember hearing a rumor once that Yodlee had any army of employees whose primary job was to update the screen scraping scripts. Make no mistake - getting this data out is very messy. but given a choice between messy and not having it at all, I'd settle for messy :-)