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by gregable 3284 days ago
It would be interesting if there were a way to run a local client that holds your credentials and does the screen scraping to send back to this API (or others).
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I believe Wesabe had an implementation that did this.

From http://blog.precipice.org/why-wesabe-lost-to-mint/

   Wesabe built our own data acquisition system, first
   using downloadable client programs (partially because
   that was easier and partially to preserve users’
   privacy)
Technically, they could provide a self-hosted version. But that may not be a very profitable business. Also, screen scraping needs continuous updating as the bank's interface changes.