joonty/yodlee

Fetch accounting data from the Yodlee MoneyCenter.

yodlee¶ ↑

github.com/aasmith/yodlee

DESCRIPTION:¶ ↑

Fetches accounts and their transaction details from the Yodlee MoneyCenter (moneycenter.yodlee.com).

NOTES:¶ ↑

• The strings returned by Yodlee::Account#{last_updated,next_update} can be parsed with Chronic (chronic.rubyforge.org), if a timestamp is needed.

• Raises exceptions when exceptional things happen. These are scenarios where the connection probably needs to be re-instantiated with the correct details after prompting the user or some external source for more complete login or account details.

BUGS / TODO:¶ ↑

• Does not handle lists containing bill pay accounts

• Does not handle cases where the session has timed out. To avoid this, use the instantiated objects in short durations. Don’t leave them hanging around.

• Add support for investment holdings

• Update account transactions / polling

SYNOPSIS:¶ ↑

require 'rubygems'
require 'yodlee'

# Create some credentials to login with.
cred = Yodlee::Credentials.new
cred.username = 'bob'
cred.password = 'weak'

# The word the remote system stores and shows back to you to prove
# they really are Yodlee.
cred.expectation = 'roflcopter'

# An array of questions and answers. Yodlee expects you to answer
# three of thirty defined in Yodlee::Credentials::QUESTIONS.
cred.answers = [[Yodlee::Credentials::QUESTIONS[1], "The Queen"], [...]]

# That's enough credentials. Create a connection.
conn = Yodlee::Connection.new(cred)

# Connect, and get an account list.
conn.accounts.each do |account|
  puts account.institute_name, account.name, account.current_balance

  # grab a handy list of transactions. Parseable as CSV.
  puts account.simple_transactions

  # Next line needs johnson.
  # p account.transactions

  # take a look in account.account_info for a hash of useful stuff.
  # available keys vary by account type and institute.
end

# Should look something like this:

First Bank of Excess
Checking
$123.45
[...some csv...]
First Bank of Mattress
Savings
$1,234.56
[...more csv!...]

REQUIREMENTS:¶ ↑

mechanize, nokogiri.

Optional dependency on johnson (github.com/jbarnette/johnson)

INSTALL:¶ ↑

sudo gem install aasmith-yodlee --source http://gems.github.com

LICENSE:¶ ↑

Copyright © 2009 Andrew A. Smith <[email protected]>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the ‘Software’), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ‘AS IS’, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.