I wasn’t sure where to ask this, so please feel free to direct me to a different community if there’s a good one for this question.

Are there any US banks that allow their clients programmatic access to their own data? As far as I’m aware, that’s not really a thing in the US, but I might be willing to switch banks if there are any that provide access.

  • ritswd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Mint uses an OAuth token (I think through Plaid). This is not the same thing as sharing a username/password, and is authorized by your bank, since they provide the OAuth flow; otherwise OAuth wouldn’t work in the first place.

    • Falmarri@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Fyi plaid does screen scraping to get a lot of their data. At least they did 6 years ago or so when I worked in the sector