Re:The /unblock API from Browserless: dodging bot detection ...
by iamacyborg on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @05:36PM
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> I want to automate (or at least semi-automate) downloading bank statements. I've got ~14 accounts (checking, savings, credit card, IRA, investment, HSA) across 7 financial institutions.
Could you not shoot an email to those institutions asking for a copy of the documents?
Re:The /unblock API from Browserless: dodging bot detection ...
by hrrsn on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @06:01PM
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Not OP, but I do the same for ~7 accounts across 5 institutions. There's no need to contact them since you can manually download the statements, but it's a chore if you're doing it frequently. I usually run my script a few times a week.
Re:The /unblock API from Browserless: dodging bot detection ...
by mrmanner on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @03:02PM
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> Could you not shoot an email to those institutions asking for a copy
They’ll respond within a few days, asking me to log into some web portal to prove that I am me, and then we’re back where we started
• I want to automate (or at least semi-automate) downloading bank statements. I've got ~14 accounts (checking, savings, credit card, IRA, investment, HSA) across 7 financial institutions.
It's tedious to go download statements from all of them manually.
• I want to save stories from FanFiction.net (FFN) for offline reading. FFN's terms allow automation as long as it doesn't operate faster than a human [1].
[1] From their TOS:
> You agree not to use or launch any automated system, including without limitation, "robots," "spiders," or "offline readers," that accesses the Service in a manner that sends more request messages to the FanFiction.Net servers in a given period of time than a human can reasonably produce in the same period by using a conventional on-line web browser.