[tzs]

I've got a couple of things I've used browser automation tools for:

• I want to automate (or at least semi-automate) downloading bank statements. I've got ~14 accounts (checking, savings, credit card, IRA, investment, HSA) across 7 financial institutions.

It's tedious to go download statements from all of them manually.

• I want to save stories from FanFiction.net (FFN) for offline reading. FFN's terms allow automation as long as it doesn't operate faster than a human [1].

[1] From their TOS:

> You agree not to use or launch any automated system, including without limitation, "robots," "spiders," or "offline readers," that accesses the Service in a manner that sends more request messages to the FanFiction.Net servers in a given period of time than a human can reasonably produce in the same period by using a conventional on-line web browser.

[iamacyborg]

> I want to automate (or at least semi-automate) downloading bank statements. I've got ~14 accounts (checking, savings, credit card, IRA, investment, HSA) across 7 financial institutions.

Could you not shoot an email to those institutions asking for a copy of the documents?

[hrrsn]

Not OP, but I do the same for ~7 accounts across 5 institutions. There's no need to contact them since you can manually download the statements, but it's a chore if you're doing it frequently. I usually run my script a few times a week.

[mrmanner]

> Could you not shoot an email to those institutions asking for a copy

They’ll respond within a few days, asking me to log into some web portal to prove that I am me, and then we’re back where we started