get account balances from bank Web site?

[Dan Barkwell]

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/01/22/mechanize.html

WWW::Mechanize is a great Perl module to use in this instance.

DB

On July 15, 2005 08:49 pm, 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.
>
> Any ideas how to do that?
>
> Cheers!
> Aaron.
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