Title: I wrote my own unofficial API for a banking website[0] (check balance, send money, view transaction history) by essentially writing a crawler that would do whatever the a user would do if they were navigating the website themselves. I built it for fun to see if it was possible and then shelved it along with the rest of the half-completed projects littering my hard drive.<p>I was wondering how feasible it would be to use it as a basis for a service to facilitate e-commerce. It would require the user to give me, a 3rd party, their credentials which isn&#x27;t something I&#x27;d recommend someone to do. But then again, Mint has done well for themselves doing just that so perhaps my opinion on the matter isn&#x27;t entirely relevant.<p>PayPal, BrainTree, Stripe, etc. are not available in my corner of the world and I feel that&#x27;s too bad cause a good payments solution could be a big deal to businesses and consumers alike if available. I&#x27;d be happy if the bank shuts down my service as long as they (or someone else) provide an alternative.<p>Have you provided your bank credentials to Mint or another similar 3rd party service? If so why? Did you ever stop to think if it was a bad idea? Do you think most people do?<p>[0] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;xtrumanx&#x2F;zapi
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