Do you guys know of any banks that offer an API to their customers? I'm looking for a way to get bank account balance and transaction history for a small personal project I'm working on (meaning, plad is not really an option)

where do you live?

In the EU every bank is required to offer an api.

https://www.openbankingeurope.eu/

Ooc, what sort of project?

@heyheni unfortunately I don't live in the EU. That is pretty awesome though

@RichardoC it's a dashboard system, so it tells me lots of information about lots of stuff, one of which I want to be my current bank account balance

Fun fact, most existing apis for this just do web scraping. So I ended up just writing a puppeteer script for it and it all works

I've looked into this a bit. Banks really don't want to you to access your data through channels they don't control. It takes legislation to force them to open up. Even then, it might just be to fintechs and not to some random customer that can code.

If you're in Australia, nab has been working on something and there's some laws coming into effect in July but I'm not clear on how open they'll have to be