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by iamacyborg 847 days ago
> 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?

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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.
> 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