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Re:Show HN: ExpenseOwl – simple and beautiful self-hostedexp... by satvikpendem on Saturday February 08, 2025 @03:37AM (#42981477)
Lots of providers exist for bank information, Plaid is one of them. That's what many of these auto import personal finance softwares use.
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Re:Show HN: ExpenseOwl – simple and beautiful self-hostedexp... by junon on Saturday February 08, 2025 @05:17AM (#42981939)
Having used Plaid, it is essentially web scraping as a service. It's an API built on top of very questionable access. It itself is not a formal API provided to you by the bank.
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Re:Show HN: ExpenseOwl – simple and beautiful self-hostedexp... by satvikpendem on Saturday February 08, 2025 @05:19AM (#42981949)
Yes it is (I never said it wasn't), but it works. They are working with banks to modernize their APIs as well.
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