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I want to do this too. Details would be handy. Even if its extracting data from PDF statements or saved HTML pages.

I used CasperJS to download a specific CSV file, providing the chrome user agent. Then I used a simple NodeJS script to parse this.

Basically use a web automation tool to simulate the login process and then grab the data you want, save it to .csv file or something. For saved HTML pages, web automation tools generally can work with them. For saved PDF I'm not sure what is good.

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