Before writing your own screen scraper, try simplefin.org as others have mentioned. It runs off MX and supports Chase OOTB. There are institutions it doesn't support and limitations to the data available for some institutions it does support, but anything you can run through Simple Fin you probably should.
That does remind me, does anyone on the list use a fetch-from-email pipeline? Emailed statements are PDFs, which is ugh but could be useful. Sincerely, Timothy Jesionowski On Sun, Dec 21, 2025, 2:42 PM Justin Steffen <[email protected]> wrote: > I have been using Red’s Importer Framework as my base for many of my > importers and I have found it really helpful to make progress and learn > from an experienced Beancount and Python repository. I appreciate how Red’s > made it work with Beangulp 3.0 and keeping me moving. :) > > AI has helped me pivot my importers quickly from OFX to CSV when Bank of > America dropped support for OFX File Downloads from their site for example. > > I also have a few Headed Playwright Tests that logs in and downloads these > files and renames them in the right place that I would be happy to share > somewhere. > > Could Red’s Importers be a good landing place for these items? Don’t want > to put too much pressure on one person though. :) > > Appreciate this conversation and will be following along haha. > > Justin > > > > > On Sat, Dec 20, 2025 at 1:02 PM TRS-80 <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Paul Walker <[email protected]> writes: >> >> > I've been happy with https://beta-bridge.simplefin.org/ for checking >> and >> > credit accounts, even on my virtual Wealthfront account. I'm just >> starting >> > to try it out for investments. It's missing CUSIP for bonds, options are >> > probably similar, but for dividends and regular stocks it seems fine. >> The >> > bridge is backed by mx.com >> >> ^ This! >> >> I have been using it for months. Happy enough that I even paid for a >> year by now (it's only $1.50 per month anyway, or $15 per year). >> >> In the US, situation is very different from EU/UK (where apparently they >> have a much easier time with this sort of thing?). >> >> On our side of the pond, there are a few big aggregators, MX is one of >> those. I am as cheap as they come, but with the state of affairs here >> in US, I am tickled to death to have any sort of automated access at >> all. I am happy to pay the $1.50 per month just to avoid the manual log >> in, captcha, TFA, click, click, click dance... >> >> I even wrote an Emacs Lisp interface to their API. :) If there is any >> interest, perhaps I could be bothered to publish it? >> >> Let me know. >> >> -- >> Cheers, >> TRS-80 >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Beancount" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/878qewj28m.fsf%40isnotmyreal.name >> . >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Beancount" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CABmyVE1AXqSyz6--1km0jTE2NJiMFq4KHR-N_OeyPjfnpOgQrQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CABmyVE1AXqSyz6--1km0jTE2NJiMFq4KHR-N_OeyPjfnpOgQrQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAOVsoWSKyA3CegZFZY_jAkemr6A%2Bi_8xMnY37kZJo5ga4WbWQg%40mail.gmail.com.
