jamiemcnaught / barclayscrape

A small app to programmatically mainpulate Barclays online banking

Barclayscrape

Code to programmatically manipulate Barclays online banking. At the moment it supports:

• Logging in
• Fetching a list of accounts
• get_ofx.js uses the export function to fetch an .ofx file for each of your bank accounts (assuming there are transactions available) into the current directory.
• export_csv.js parses HTML statements into a CSV file for each of your bank accounts and saves them into the export directory.

Version 2

Owing to Barclays' recent move to using an AJAX-powered login system, I have had to rewrite this code from Ruby/Mechanize to CasperJS. This automates the site using a headless web browser, and the new code relies less on the position of objects within the page.

This new code should be more future-proof against online banking changes.

The old Ruby version can be found in the barclayscrape-1 branch.

Prerequisites

• Phantomjs 1.9
• Casperjs 1.1

Configuration

Copy config.js.example to config.js, and fill in:

• surname
• membership_number

If you use the Mobile PINSentry app, that's it, otherwise you'll be using the PINSentry card reader and will also need:

• card_digits (last digits of your authentication card)

If you know your account numbers, want to limit the exported files and give them aliases for readability, you can set:

• accounts an object e.g:

accounts: { 
    'gbp': '12345678901234',
    'eur': '12345678901234',
    'usd': '12345678901234'
}

Otherwise, you can leave it null and all accounts will be exported

Usage

If you use the Mobile PINSentry app, no arguments are needed

$ ./get_ofx.js # or export_csv.js

Otherwise, you'll need the PINSentry card reader and usage is like so:

$ ./get_ofx.js --otp=<otp>

Where otp is your PINSentry one-time password.

PINSentry emulator barclays-pinsentry

Typing in your OTP every time is a pain, so we also ship Adrian Kennard's barclays-pinsentry emulator (see below for tips):

$ ./get_ofx.js --otp=`./barclays-pinsentry -p <pin> -o`

Only tested on Ubuntu/Debian Linux. You will need:

• A pcsc-compatible smartcard reader (I use the Gemalto PC Twin USB which can be had for about £20)
• The pcsc, libpcsclite-dev, and libpopt-dev packages

Make the barclays-pinsentry binary using the Makefile provided. Insert your debit/auth card into the card reader. Then you should be able to run it:

$ ./barclays-pinsentry -l
 0: Gemplus GemPC Twin 00 00