Re:Launch HN: Realize (YC W22) – Integrate brokerage account...
by tehwebguy on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @11:29PM
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Can you explain how you collect credentials but don’t store them?
Re:Launch HN: Realize (YC W22) – Integrate brokerage account...
by timothygoltser on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @11:46PM
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We collect a user's credentials (usernames + passwords) and exchange them immediately for access and refresh tokens. We use the term "credentials" as we've seen it used colloquially - access and refresh tokens certainly fall under the formal definition of credentials, but we usually call them "sensitive tokens" or something similar.
Additionally, in the case of an API like Webull's which accepts a salted MD5 hash of the user's password, the user's plaintext password will never touch our servers.
Many of the major brokerages are realizing that this isn't ideal and are starting to build out public APIs. We're working to develop relationships with the holdouts and convince them that exposing a public API is the only sustainable long-term solution to their screen scraping problem.