Re: Community Discussion: I have to say I'm getting weary of all the download problems

David Arnstein <[email protected]> Wed, 30 Oct 2024 05:35:24 -0000 (UTC)

Newsgroups	alt.comp.software.financial.quicken
Organization	North Coast Nest And Noodle Inn
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

In article <[email protected]>,
John Pollard  <[email protected]> wrote:
>The only download type (Connection Method) in which the financial 
>institution is not involved with choosing and formatting the data to be 
>downloaded, is SOME "Express Web Connect" downloads. In those specific 
>cases, Intuit does what's called screen scraping by "reading" the 
>financial institution data as it appears on the FI's web site. This is 
>the download type with the greatest risk of sending incorrect/incomplete 
>data.

I hate this practice so much. A web site should be designed and maintained
in order to please and serve human visitors - not machines! Changing
the web site to improve it is a worthy endeavor. Attempting to automously
extract numeric information from a web site is therefore bound to fail
occasionally. I fervently hope that none of my FIs sink to this level
of stupidity.
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David Arnstein                       (00)
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