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In the screenshot provided in the README, I see there is a 'sync' button next to the 'save' button. If this is essentially self-hosted, what is the application syncing to?

Edit: Whoops I missed this line under "Features":

> Limited* support to sync transactions with your bank. See here[1] for more details.

1: https://github.com/reZach/my-budget/wiki/Creating-a-new-conn...

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Sync is meant to sync transactions from your bank. Right now it has rudimentary screen scraping, and since I don't have infinite throughput, I wrote a way for others to create these methods for their own bank. Once it's working, I can add it into the app and others can use.

I'm trying to get OFX support, which is the much-requested "auto syncing" feature that everyone wants.

I like this idea. You shouldn't have to pay to access your own bank data. Looking forward to the near future when banks either have an API or die a slow death.

OFX is the API they use. You need specific credentials that can be found online. If a bank doesn't offer OFX support, you can use the tried-and-true method of web scraping the information out, which is what Quicken does as a last-resort.

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