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[satvikpendem]

Lots of providers exist for bank information, Plaid is one of them. That's what many of these auto import personal finance softwares use.

[junon → satvikpendem]

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 → junon]

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