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A comment on Standard Treasury (YC S13) Aims To Make Software That Eats Commercial Banking.

Re:Standard Treasury (YC S13) Aims To Make Software That Eat... by thecodemonkey on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @12:33PM (#6013514)
This could potentially be huge!

I had a similar problem once, where my local bank couldn't provide enough functionality through their existing web banking system, so I ended up writing my own REST API for the bank based on screen scraping / HTML scraping. Terrible approach for something that involves money, but luckily this was read-only and only for proof of concept.

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Re:Standard Treasury (YC S13) Aims To Make Software That Eat... by zt on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @12:38PM (#6013559)
(I work on Standard Treasury)

Screen and HTML scraping is pretty standard for getting information out of bank systems. That's even primarily what Yodlee does! It's a lot harder to work directly with the banks, but in the long-term it will allow us to offer REST APIs and web hooks that make a lot more sense.

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