screen scraping should only really be needed for banks that don't support direct OFX access (or i suppose if your bank charges extra for direct access and you d

screen scraping should only really be needed for banks that don't support direct OFX access (or i suppose if your bank charges extra for direct access and you don't want to pay it). OFX is an XML'ish protocol that all of the big banks and major banking software (MS Money, Quicken, Quickbooks, iBank, etc.) use to communicate when downloading transactions, posting checks, doing transfers, etc. it's what i'm using for downloading bank transactions in corduroy (http://corduroysite.com/ http://corduroysite.com/) and i have hundreds of banks listed in there. if you know a bank's OFX URL, you can just send it an OFX query and download transactions. it works the same for every bank and credit card company, and it's much quicker than the screen-scraping dance of establishing a session, logging in, clicking around, and then updating your scripts every time the website updates its interface. here are some common OFX servers: http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/OFX_Direct_Connect_Bank_Settings http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/OFX_Direct_Connect_Bank_Setting...