Ask HN: General API for accessing bank transactions?

  • Posted 9 hours ago by aykhm
  • 4 points
I currently track expenses monthly by downloading credit card/checking account statements as CSVs and importing into excel. It's a bit annoying as I have to 1. wait for statements to post so I can't track the current month and 2. statements don't line up exactly with calendar months.

I'm looking for a general way to access transactions across all my banks, but the ones I've found all have some issues.

- Plaid: seems oriented more for businesses and isn't very friendly for personal use. They do have a personal use version but it doesn't support certain banks (e.g. Chase)

- Teller.io: unfortunately doesn't support one of my accounts (Bilt)

- Fintable.io: syncs transactions to airtable/google sheets which maybe could work, but doesn't have a simple API.

Am I missing any alternatives? Plaid supports all the institutions I want but getting setup as a non-business seems to require too many steps. Maybe any consumer-facing wrappers around Plaid's API?

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