Banking.js

The Missing API for your bank.

• Retrieve all of your bank transactions similiar to how quickbooks does it.
• No need to depend on or pay for third party services
• Bank statement results in JSON or Valid XML
• Supports all financial institutions (File an issue if yours does not work)

What is OFX?

The Short Version

The banks crappy malformed version of XML that many financial apps such as quickbooks and quicken use to import your bank transactions from your bank account, credit card, money market, etc..

The Long Version

Open Financial Exchange

• The file extension .ofx is associated with an Open Financial Exchange file as a standard format for the exchange of financial data between institutions.
• This file is universally accepted by financial software, including Intuit Quicken, Microsoft Money and GnuCash.

Background

• The Open Financial Exchange file format was created in 1997 via a joint venture by CheckFree, Intuit and Microsoft.
• The purpose was to allow for a universally accepted financial format used to broker transactions on the Internet.
• The .ofx file format is seen when dealing with financial transactions involving consumers, businesses, stocks and mutual funds.
• OFX on Wikipedia

Installation

$ npm install banking

Usage

Find your banks connection details Here

Get Statement from Bank

var banking = require('banking');

var bankInfo = {
    fid: 10898
  , fidorg: 'B1'
  , url: 'https://yourBanksOfxApiURL.com'
  , bankid: 0123456 /* If bank account use your bank routing number otherwise set to null */
  , user: 'username'
  , pass: 'password'
  , accid: 0123456789 /* Account Number */
  , acctype: 'CHECKING' /* CHECKING || SAVINGS || MONEYMRKT || CREDITCARD */
  , date_start: 20010125 /* Statement start date YYYYMMDDHHMMSS */
  , date_end: 20110125 /* Statement end date YYYYMMDDHHMMSS */
};

//If second param is omitted JSON will be returned by default

banking.getStatement(bankInfo, 'xml', function(res, err){
    if(err) console.log(err)
    console.log(res);
});

Parse file (Ofx|Qfx)

Download file for quickbooks import from your bank and parse

banking.parseOfxFile('/myfile.ofx', function (res, err) {
  if(err) done(err)
  console.log(res);
});

Parse Ofx String

banking.parseOfxString('SomeSuperLongOfxString', function (res, err) {
  if(err) done(err)
  console.log(res);
});

Sample Response

{
  "OFX": {
    "SIGNONMSGSRSV1": {
      "SONRS": {
        "STATUS": {
          "CODE": "0",
          "SEVERITY": "INFO",
          "MESSAGE": "SUCCESS"
        },
        "DTSERVER": "20120126212302.454[-8:PST]",
        "LANGUAGE": "ENG",
        "FI": {
          "ORG": "DI",
          "FID": "321081669"
        }
      }
    },
    "BANKMSGSRSV1": {
      "STMTTRNRS": {
        "TRNUID": "BiJNgqjvbw5vg18Z5T8kZASgUKmsFnNY",
        "STATUS": {
          "CODE": "0",
          "SEVERITY": "INFO",
          "MESSAGE": "SUCCESS"
        },
        "CLTCOOKIE": "iXus7",
        "STMTRS": {
          "CURDEF": "USD",
          "BANKACCTFROM": {
            "BANKID": "321081669",
            "ACCTID": "3576960405",
            "ACCTTYPE": "CHECKING"
          },
          "BANKTRANLIST": {
            "DTSTART": "20010125120000.000",
            "DTEND": "20120126212302.638[-8:PST]",
            "STMTTRN": [{
              "TRNTYPE": "DEP",
              "DTPOSTED": "20110407070000.000",
              "DTAVAIL": "20110407070000.000",
              "TRNAMT": "1934.65",
              "FITID": "156599402",
              "NAME": "CLIENT DEPOSIT",
              "MEMO": "CLIENT DEPOSIT"
            }, {
              "TRNTYPE": "DEBIT",
              "DTPOSTED": "20110412070000.000",
              "DTAVAIL": "20110412070000.000",
              "TRNAMT": "-700.00",
              "FITID": "156950780",
              "NAME": "DOMESTIC WIRE FUNDS-DEBIT CHRIST",
              "MEMO": "DOMESTIC WIRE FUNDS-DEBIT CHRISTIAN SULLIVAN"
            }, {
              "TRNTYPE": "CHECK",
              "DTPOSTED": "20110414070000.000",
              "DTAVAIL": "20110414070000.000",
              "TRNAMT": "-38.20",
              "FITID": "157222076",
              "CHECKNUM": "10004",
              "NAME": "CHECK WITHDRAWAL",
              "MEMO": "CHECK WITHDRAWAL"
            }, {
              "TRNTYPE": "CHECK",
              "DTPOSTED": "20110414070000.000",
              "DTAVAIL": "20110414070000.000",
              "TRNAMT": "-349.79",
              "FITID": "157222077",
              "CHECKNUM": "10006",
              "NAME": "CHECK WITHDRAWAL",
              "MEMO": "CHECK WITHDRAWAL"
            }]
          },
          "LEDGERBAL": {
            "BALAMT": "1661.41",
            "DTASOF": "20120126212302.751[-8:PST]"
          },
          "AVAILBAL": {
            "BALAMT": "2761.41",
            "DTASOF": "20120126212302.751[-8:PST]"
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

TODO

• Retrieve users available accounts with out account numbers
• Add directory of common banks

More Information

• Banking Connection Parameters
• Offical OFX Home Page

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2010-2012 Christian Sullivan <[email protected]>

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