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by satvikpendem 498 days ago
Lots of providers exist for bank information, Plaid is one of them. That's what many of these auto import personal finance softwares use.
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Having used Plaid, it is essentially web scraping as a service. It's an API built on top of very questionable access. It itself is not a formal API provided to you by the bank.
Yes it is (I never said it wasn't), but it works. They are working with banks to modernize their APIs as well.