The Secret API of Banks
For those in the EU there&#x27;s something interesting coming next year, banks need to provide open API to interact with each other:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thenextweb.com&#x2F;worldofbanking&#x2F;2018&#x2F;06&#x2F;27&#x2F;openbanking&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thenextweb.com&#x2F;worldofbanking&#x2F;2018&#x2F;06&#x2F;27&#x2F;openbanking...</a><p>Already right now in Germany there are a lot of banks that share a common API format which is why there are a lot of banking apps where you can just log into your bank and don&#x27;t need bank specific apps. It&#x27;s called HBCI &#x2F; FinTS (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;FinTS" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;FinTS</a>) and it&#x27;s great to have that possibility without doing some web-scraping to get your data out.<p>One example of another german bank API would be:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;api-docs.fidor.de&#x2F;v1&#x2F;introduction&#x2F;welcome-text" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;api-docs.fidor.de&#x2F;v1&#x2F;introduction&#x2F;welcome-text</a>