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		Ask HN: How do Swipely and Blippy get their data?
		1 point by gilaniali on Sept 18, 2010 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 1 comment
		I couldn't find this online, but was wondering how they were going about pulling people's purchases? I doubt all or any banks have apis. Are they then simply scraping data by using the customers log-in info?

pascalchristian on Sept 18, 2010 [–]

Probably the similar to how Mint and inDinero works; they use a third party service (such as Yodlee) which provide aggregation of financial data.

There was a thread about this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1537825

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