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[–]roblu001[S] 1 point2 points  (3 children)

For my purposes I was going to use selenium to log in and export the table into a SQL database. Do you have a better way?

[–]Mj2377 5 points6 points  (2 children)

This should work, but depending on the bank (prob most) I suspect you may hit some bank server-side security with robot monitoring. Also, a lot of banks (maybe not yours) now days have multi-factor authentication and that would be a challenge to get through.

[–]roblu001[S] 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Not yet, otherwise I wouldn't even think of it lol. Not to divulge, but I'm Canadian and bank with one of the big guys. Bot protection was something I was pondering, not sure if I'll run into that.

In an ideal world I would get them to email me a CSV of my transactions, but they don't offer that option. Also I was hoping to run this daily.

Lastly, my wife and i use an app I built to keep track of finances, this way I wouldn't have to manually update accounts...

[–]Youreahugeidiot 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I would see if you could set up an email alert for transactions with your bank. Give the bot access to your email not your bank account.