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by lifeisstillgood 3772 days ago
Is this a US thing? Getting programmatic access to my UK bank accounts is still a nightmare. I must use a manual download process involving two factor auth each time.

A company exists that scrapes the bank sites of all major banks but obv cannot defeat two factor auth so for my accounts package I used to give them my username and then have to enter the two factor each time anyway.

I conclude its too dangerous to give other companies my RW login details

Basically programmatic access to my accounts - forget it. Differentiated access (RO, RW, fine grained), don't make me laugh.

Is this just UK? Is there a better bank Inshoukd move to?