How the Internet Will Change Personal Finance

Re:How the Internet Will Change Personal Finance by brunomlopes on Sunday September 09, 2012 @11:01PM (#4498089)

I actually solved the "get the data out from the homebanking system" via 100 lines of javascript executed in phantomjs to screenscrape the site.

It isn't pretty, it might break, and I haven't looked into how to store the credentials "safely" (so it executes just when I call it and enter the u/p, and not in the background), but it beats the hell out of logging in and extracting the data by hand.

You might get some mileage of this, if you want to automate the data extraction and have an homebanking account.

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Re:How the Internet Will Change Personal Finance by jiggy2011 on Sunday September 09, 2012 @11:12PM (#4498120)

I actually did consider this option and technically it's probably not too difficult.

On the other hand I'd hate to get used to using this and then have them do some obfuscation deliberately to stop me.

I'd also be somewhat paranoid that if my bank figured it out then they'd come down on me like a ton of bricks and use some convoluted law to freeze my account or send me to prison for "hacking the bank" or somesuch.

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