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You can prod the network panel to reverse engineer simple's APIs. I've done it for some visualization tools in the past.

It's sloppy and undocumented, but their support staff are fantastic and surprisingly technical, so I had about a 100% success rate tweeting them things like "what's the new endpoint for what was previously /bank/transactions?"

A public version of this API was one of their stated goals in 2010 or so, but they're more interested in chasing non-technical product goals like couples accounts. I expect their most technical customers don't make up enough transaction volume to justify attention.

I love simple for being the least worst, but am still saddened by what they could have been if they had stripe's passion for technical execution. But hey, at least there's an API and they won't slap you with the CFAA for hitting it.




Sorry for the late reply here. I'm still new to HN and haven't figured out everything yet...

How are you doing authentication for the API? Is it session based or can you pass some sort of API token after logging in?




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