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Re:Simple Personal Finance Tracking with GnuCash by imnotreallynew on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @10:09AM (#23246937)
> because the API endpoints needed don't exist unless you're a company with a large enough budget to afford it.

I’m pretty sure Plaid’s free tier is more than enough for the use case you suggest.

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Re:Simple Personal Finance Tracking with GnuCash by TeMPOraL on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @10:28AM (#23247192)
Took a look, it looks promising. With two caveats. One:

  Plaid supports institutions in the following countries:

    Canada ( 'CA' )
    France ( 'FR' )
    Ireland ( 'IE' )
    Netherlands ( 'NL' )
    Spain ( 'ES' )
    United Kingdom ( 'GB' )
    United States ( 'US' )
My country (Poland) is unfortunately not on the list.

Two, there's some mention that "Some European institutions use an OAuth authentication flow, ...". I can't find any info on how long the OAuth tokens are valid, but I suspect they'll be short-lived enough to destroy any possibility of having a script placed in cron.

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