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by vaibhav228 3466 days ago
YNAB, MINT and BudgetSimple, they do have Bank account/ Credit card link. You can link your financial institution and get the daily transactions.

Why do we need to scrap? Is there any specific reason ?

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I assumed that those sites had web scrapers. Do most banks have an API for getting access to customers' transaction records?
No..several third party applications can help you do that -

https://plaid.com/ http://www.ofx.net/