get account balances from bank Web site?

[Rob Sutherland]

Aaron Vegh wrote:

>Hi all,
>Here's a fun little problem I've been turning around in my head for a
>few days. I don't have sufficient nerd cred to get it done and hoping
>you might have some pointers. Here's what I want to do.
>
>I have my banking accounts with pc financial (www.pcfinancial.ca).
>They have a great service and no fees. I love those guys. Anyway, I'd
>really like to be able to tell what my bank balance is anytime. Rather
>than going through the tiresome process of
>
>- opening my browser
>- choosing the Web banking login bookmark
>- entering my bank card and password
>- bing! viewing my account balances. Oh, crap!
>
>what would be cool is to have either a command-line tool (I'm running
>OS X) or a Web script do the logging in and scraping of the account
>balances, displaying them for my viewing pleasure whenever I want.
>Especially in a Dashboard widget, but I'll take a local web page.
>
>  
>
This sounds like it's close to what you're looking for

https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=500

Rob

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