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Every year around tax time I find myself looking to replace Mint, being unimpressed with the competition, and wondering the same thing as I import the previous
by enobrev 7y ago
Every year around tax time I find myself looking to replace Mint, being unimpressed with the competition, and wondering the same thing as I import the previous year's mint csv into a spreadsheet... Why isn't there an open source set of tools for us to do this for ourselves?
Considering how many people seem to use Mint just to download the CSV of their transactions for Excel or whatever, I'm surprised there isn't some sort of open-source scraping tool (or set of scrapers) meant to be used by developers (and normal people) that will simply grab data from your bank using your credentials and save them into some sort of standardized format.
The standards of such a tool would revolve around standardizing the inputs (url and auth) and outputs (structured financial info).
The obvious answer is that I should start it ("...2nd best time is now"). Unfortunately, I don't have the time. I suppose that's also the answer to the larger question.