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Mint uses Yodlee [1] for website scraping. Wesabe built their own and apparently inferior scraper, and this could be one of the reasons of why they lost to Mint
by iampims 16y ago
Mint uses Yodlee [1] for website scraping. Wesabe built their own and apparently inferior scraper, and this could be one of the reasons of why they lost to Mint.[2]
[1] http://www.yodlee.com/ http://www.yodlee.com/
[2] http://blog.precipice.org/why-wesabe-lost-to-mint http://blog.precipice.org/why-wesabe-lost-to-mint
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- kaiserama 16y agoApparently after being acquired by Intuit, Mint started using the Intuit aggregation framework. They seem to have made the transition fairly transparent as I had no idea it had switched.
- stellar678 16y agoThat's intriguing - I thought one of their privacy promises was that they don't hold on to the login information for your various accounts, that it lived with Yodlee. Seems like to do a transition they'd have to break that promise.