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How to run the script

  1. Run npm install.
  2. Copy secrets.js.dist to secrets.js and fill it. You can use https://api.youneedabudget.com/v1#/ to find all the IDs.
  3. Run the script passing account name, notification title and notification text:
    node index.js "mbank" "Przelew z konta" "11,11 PLN do PAYU SPÓŁKA AKCYJNA"
    Account: mbank
    Title: Przelew z konta
    Message: 11,11 PLN do PAYU SPÓŁKA AKCYJNA
    Sending to YNAB:
    {
      account_id: 'XXX',
      payee_id: null,
      memo: 'PAYU SPÓŁKA AKCYJNA',
      cleared: 'uncleared',
      approved: false,
      flag_color: 'yellow',
      date: '2021-10-14',
      amount: -11110
    }
    
    You can pass 1 as an additional argument to run in dry mode which does the parsing but skips the YNAB API request.

How to run the script automatically

  1. Install https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pl.mbank, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.konylabs.cbplpat or https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.revolut.revolut.
  2. Enable mobile app notifications for all transactions.
  3. Find a way to pass these notifications to this script. I use https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.llamalab.automate, https://f-droid.org/packages/com.termux/ and https://f-droid.org/packages/com.termux.tasker/ with Node.js running on my phone.

What would be nice to implement

  • Make it easier to use different banking apps
  • Streamline setup if possible, but I didn't find an easier way to scrape mobile apps notifications yet
  • Add tests
  • Add TypeScript to avoid bugs, but it would complicate deployment process (for me, it's Syncthing between my laptop and phone)

Contributions

I'm not really expecting that anyone will want to use it, but if so, I'd love to make it easy to contribute. Just let me know what you need.

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