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Finance-dl

Tools for automatically downloading/scraping personal financial data.

Finance-dl is an open-source plain-text accounting project on GitHub under the GPL-2.0 license (strong copyleft), with 340 stars. It is built with CPython. Its last push was 18 months ago.

Stars
340
License
GPL-2.0
Activity
Quiet
Latest release
v1.3.4

Code on GitHub

Judgement

What it is
Developer tool
What it does
Python scrapers that download transactions, statements and bills from banks via OFX and from sites such as PayPal, Amazon and US utilities.
Adopt it when
You feed beancount-import and have accounts with the supported, mostly US, providers.
Watch out
Scrapers break when websites change, and there has been no push since May 2025.
Ready for
Usable
Runs as
Command line and library
Built with
Python and Selenium
How established
Established: started 8 years ago, latest release v1.3.4.
What the license allows
Use inside your business is unrestricted, but anything you distribute that includes it must be released under the same license.

Judged on 2026-11-03 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.

Built from

CPython

Follow it down: Finance-dl → CPython → GCC → LLVM project → runs on a microchip

How compilers were built, back to punched paper tape

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