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Auto import transactions to financial manager by parsing bank emails–– a sanity check (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 years ago by abies_exarchia@lemm.ee to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I've been after that golden goose of auto-imported transactions from my US banks into a selfhosted financial manager for some time now. Plaid doesn't work with some of my banks, and comes with a slew of privacy compromises anyway. I'm looking to import transactions into firefly iii (or actualbudget) by scraping information from bank alert emails about my transactions. I wanted to write about it here in case someone had experience doing so or any tips-- or if this is a silly venture.

My plan is to set alerts for all transactions across my banks, and direct them all to a single email address. Then I'll write a python script that checks the inbox every 5mins or so, and if it detects a new email, it will parse it according to some code I write and extract the amount and the payee, and then attempt to import it into (in this case, ActualBudget) using the importTransactions API call.

It's going to be a bit of a pain in the ass to set this up as I see it (I'm also a bit of a beginner, but think I can make it work) and I just want to see if anyone else has tried this. Thanks!

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[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

I just went the parsing CSV route, but it's only semi-automated. Still a lot better than manually entering everything. Annoyingly, every bank uses a different damn format so you need specific config for all of them.