Copy this template to a repo of your own and then follow the Development Guide
This project is still in early development, so it may require a higher level of skill to utilize.
This is a "template" for building chrome extensions that can scrape account and transaction data from banking websites and automatically push the data into an instance of Firefly III.
This project exists as an alternative to the cloud-based banking APIs (E.g. plaid) in order to maximize privacy by keeping your banking data out of the hands of third parties.
- Provides a template to scrape most banks by writing ~25 easy bits of code.
- Includes a menu for logging in to Firefly III with Oauth 2
- Integrates with the Chrome Extension Hub to streamline user experience.
Here's the thing:
Banks don't really want you to pull your data into external services like Firefly III, etc. They'd rather sell you products to manage your finances (often for free) and keep all of your data in their walled gardens. This helps them keep you away from competitors. It's smart business.
With that in mind, providing a good, convenient way of exporting data (or, god forbid, an API) is extremely rare from banks.
So, scraping data from websites via a Chrome Extension is an alternative.
Fork this repo and use it as a base for your extension. Implement the content
scripts in the src/content_scripts directory to scrape
your bank's pages.
Ideally, this project would use dependency injection, so you can provide your own "page scraping" service to satisfy a dependency interface, minimizing the amount of overlap between your code and the base code.
- The OAuth2 component of this project was based on this project by satetsu888