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It would be interesting if there were a way to run a local client that holds your credentials and does the screen scraping to send back to this API (or others).
by gregable 9y ago
It would be interesting if there were a way to run a local client that holds your credentials and does the screen scraping to send back to this API (or others).
- viraptor 9y agoTechnically, they could provide a self-hosted version. But that may not be a very profitable business. Also, screen scraping needs continuous updating as the bank's interface changes.
- thwarted 9y agoI believe Wesabe had an implementation that did this. From http://blog.precipice.org/why-wesabe-lost-to-mint/ http://blog.precipice.org/why-wesabe-lost-to-mint/ Wesabe built our own data acquisition system, first using downloadable client programs (partially because that was easier and partially to preserve users’ privacy)