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		junon 13 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: ExpenseOwl – Simple, self-hosted expense ... 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.

satvikpendem 13 days ago [–]

Yes it is (I never said it wasn't), but it works. They are working with banks to modernize their APIs as well.

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