Good news everyone! Mint and other financial institutions are finally starting to adopt OAuth and APIs. The benefit is instead of giving Mint your username and password, which it uses to login and screen scrape to gather data, Mint is given a token, which is read only. This is a much safer way of connecting accounts.
In addition, using APIs instead of screen scraping will keep accuracy better, speed up account refreshes, and keep things working when your bank changes their UI.
Submitted November 22, 2017 at 08:24AM by _benwa http://ift.tt/2hJKk38
