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You can simulate a browser and act as if you're a normal, browser using customer. Encapsulate it and you've got an "API"; though it'll be a bit painful as a lot
by duozerk 9y ago
You can simulate a browser and act as if you're a normal, browser using customer. Encapsulate it and you've got an "API"; though it'll be a bit painful as a lot of banks' web backends are fucked up and you'll need to keep up to date with their changes, but still. I did it for my French bank account at one point (get balance + submit transfer).
- nickpsecurity 9y agoYour comment might be the first I've seen justifying the use of Electron. ;)
- lioeters 9y agoApparently, some used this technique for actual commercial services, which was partly motivation (they called it "screen scraping") for the European Commission's recent directive to require banks to allow authorized third-party access to customer account data. https://paymentscompliance.com/premium-content/insights_analysis/payment-initiation-and-screen-scraping-legal-tussle-heart-psd2 https://paymentscompliance.com/premium-content/insights_anal...