Re:Show HN: Paisa – Open-Source Personal Finance Manager
by domh on Friday September 22, 2023 @12:54PM
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It's been a little while since I've looked into the Open Banking API stuff - how easy is it to use this API as a consumer? Or do I have to create a business and apply for a license in order to use it?
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Re:Show HN: Paisa – Open-Source Personal Finance Manager
by jon-wood on Friday September 22, 2023 @01:00PM
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Open Banking is in some ways misnamed - you can't as an end-user just do OAuth and get a data feed out of your account, you'll have to go via a third party who've jumped through all the hoops.
Re:Show HN: Paisa – Open-Source Personal Finance Manager
by domh on Friday September 22, 2023 @01:03PM
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Got it! That's what I thought (feared). I wonder if there are ever plans to open it up to general use, or if it would be easy as an end user to jump said hoops.
I wonder if there are any open source third parties?
Re:Show HN: Paisa – Open-Source Personal Finance Manager
by buzer on Friday September 22, 2023 @01:33PM
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I don't know about open source ones, but I did find Enable Banking (https://old.reddit.com/r/eupersonalfinance/comments/k4ny3j/f...) offering free access to your own accounts. I don't know if "offer" still stands, the FAQ is not very explicit on it (it only talks about testing, https://enablebanking.com/docs/faq/#can-i-test-the-api-befor... & https://enablebanking.com/docs/api/linked-accounts/).
I tried it, but I couldn't get things working sandbox environment so I ended up giving up and just do manual exports.
Re:Show HN: Paisa – Open-Source Personal Finance Manager
by rmesters on Saturday September 23, 2023 @06:49AM
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GoCardless has an API that’s connected to 2.3k banks in Europe and UK.
Free to use (up to a limit). Not open source though.
Link: https://gocardless.com/bank-account-data/
[I work at GoCardless]