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		tocomment on Jan 4, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Buxfer is giving Mint, other personal finance site... I still don't understand how these sites access the banks' data. Is it screen scraping?

ashu on Jan 4, 2008 [–]

We use the Direct OFX protocol for accessing the data. We use screen scraping only for 2-3 banks which either don't support OFX or charge their users exorbitant fees for OFX access.

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