[GNC-dev] Patelco stopped supporting OFX... other options

[jean laroche]

> I found an explanation of Quicken's Express Web Connect at https://community.quicken.com/discussion/7851859/faq-how-quicken-connects-with-your-financial-institution-tips-tricks-and-best-practices.
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> The short answer is it works the same as plaid and friends: The transaction data is retrieved nightly and stored on Intuit's servers and Quicken phones home to retrieve them.
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> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
That's interesting! They even mention screen scraping (I'm not sure 
whether that's really what's happening, I would imagine that would be 
extremely unreliable). I'm sure most data aggregators (such as plaid) no 
longer use screen scraping, they must have agreements with Banks to 
download directly, but I'm not too sure about this.