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Nice! I use YNAB and have an AWS environment set up that logs all my credit card transactions instantly. My bank sends me an email with the transaction info, wh
by buzzy_hacker 7y ago
Nice! I use YNAB and have an AWS environment set up that logs all my credit card transactions instantly. My bank sends me an email with the transaction info, which I receive with Simple Email Service. Then I use Lambda to parse the email and log it in YNAB using their API. Fun and useful project. https://github.com/buzzlawless/ynab-live-import https://github.com/buzzlawless/ynab-live-import
I totally get the benefits of ritually entering though. I’m definitely lazier about non-credit card transactions now... motivation to expand my program to other types of accounts and get fully automated!
- LilBytes 7y agoWow, that's amazing. I'm totally going to use this. YNAB unfortunately don't allow live feeds from Australian banks so using middle-ware is a great idea. I never even considered broking the service myself. Awesome!
- buzzy_hacker 7y agoThanks! Glad to hear others are getting use out of this idea. Feel free to ask any questions if you run into stumbling blocks setting it up.
- LilBytes 7y agoI surely will, thanks again!
- 4k05 7y agoI do something similar. Banks in Germany offer a so called HBCI/FinTS interface (I think it is mandatory for them). There are some open source libraries available to read transaction through this interface. I made a time triggered azure function to read all transactions from the bank for the day before and add them to YNAB via their REST API. Was a fun weekend projet... We then add categories manually to all transaction on the YNAB app, so... we go through each transaction every couple of days.