Next Saturday we'll be hosting a hackathon at Gudog's office.
Bankscrap is a Ruby gem to extract balances and transactions from multiple banks. It's a higher level abstraction of the work I did with the BBVA gem. It was initially proposed by ismaGNU from nvivo.
Most banks don't offer public APIs and the only way to access to your data (balance and transactions) is through their websites... and most bank websites are a f*cking nightmare.
We are developers and we don't want to waste time doing things we are able to automate. Having to perform 20 clicks in an awful website just to check how much money we have is not something we like.