BeanHub's Direct Connect, easier bank CSV download via Plaid

From the beancount mail list last month:

Hi folks,

Many of you know that I have been building BeanHub. It's like a GitHub but for Beancount. I've already built an integration with Plaid and made most of our accounting books automatic. It took a lot of effort for us to pass security audits to get access to transaction data from some major banks like Chase. I wonder if some people don't like to use BeanHub as a hosting service, but they may find the ability to pull CSV files from the bank directly into their local machine securely useful. This is why I decided to build a new feature to allow people to only pull CSV files without hosting their accounting book on BeanHub:

BeanHub - Direct Connect: Pulling transactions as CSV files from banks via Plaid directly

By doing so, it's also possible for ledger, hledger, or any other plain text accounting users to pull CSV data and consume them easily, not just for Beancount. I hope the whole community can grow bigger with better and easily accessible tools and some commercial support. Hope some of you find this feature helpful :smile:

You can connect to Plaid yourself for free, but this paid service aims to make it easier (see linked faq).