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I have a script that logs into my bank's web interface, and extracts my current balance. I subtract out my upcoming bills/savings transactions to tell me how much money I can spend until my next paycheck. My next step is to have it email the amount spendable every morning.

I'm using python 3, selenium, and SQLAlchemy connected to a home MySQL server.

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Check out https://peterdemin.github.io/kibitzr-banks.html It does almost the same

Same here, though I only store them in a plain text file.

My tip for others trying the same is to look into your bank's mobile site, if they have one. Mine was much simpler to parse, I only needed a single XPath expression to extract the number.

Also, if your bank's site is AJAX-y, look into the network tab of your browser, chances are you can find an URL that sends you a nice JSON back with the data you need.

This is a good idea and it's on my very long nice-to-have list. How are you driving the browser? Some sort of UI testing library? My bank has no API so it'd have to screen scrape.

EDIT: Sorry, I can see that it says it right there in your post: Selenium. Leaving up my stupid question as a marker of shame.

That is a neat idea! I should deploy something similar. Thanks!

Could you share your codes?

The code's a bit rough, I have a bit of cleanup to go before I publish it.

Very cool, please let me know when you release it! I'd love to check it out.

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