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by mehrdadn 2886 days ago
Have you looked into the existing options? Citi and Bank of America for example support virtual card numbers (virtual account numbers and ShopSafe, respectively).
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Capital One does, as well. Unfortunately, it requires a browser extension, which I'm not a big fan of.
Ah, yes, the UI (Flash-based in the cases I mentioned!) is definitely clunky, so it's not surprising Capital One's is similar. They also tend to hide the feature a little bit for some reason; it's not prominently displayed. But otherwise it's there and nevertheless usable if you can find it. If you need it on literally a daily basis, though, it might not be smooth enough to be comfortable.
Could you MITM the extension to reverse engineer the API calls it makes and write a command line tool to perform the required functions?

I have a friend at CapOne, I’ll ask tomorrow.