Money doesn’t have to be messy. The YNAB budgeting app and its simple four-rule method will help you organize your finances, demolish your debt, save piles of cash, and reach your financial goals faster.
Go to siteThe You Need a Budget (YNAB) API provides APIs to interact with YNAB users’ budgets, transactions, and more. With the YNAB API, developers have the ability to build applications that are tailored to an individual's budget and financial lifestyle.
Whether you're looking to create an app to assist with budgeting and tracking expenses, generating reports, or getting a real-time view of an individual's budget and movements, the YNAB API provides the tools to do it. The YNAB API is easy to use, secure, and versatile.
Here are some examples of how you can use the YNAB API:
import { axios } from "@pipedream/platform"
export default defineComponent({
props: {
you_need_a_budget: {
type: "app",
app: "you_need_a_budget",
}
},
async run({steps, $}) {
return await axios($, {
url: `https://api.youneedabudget.com/v1/user`,
headers: {
Authorization: `Bearer ${this.you_need_a_budget.$auth.oauth_access_token}`,
},
})
},
})
Emit new event when an account balance drops below a certain amount
Emit new event when a category balance drops below a certain amount
Emit new event for every new or updated transaction. See the docs
Emit new event for every spending in an account. See the docs
Update a category budget for a specific month. See the docs
You Need a Budget uses OAuth authentication. When you connect your You Need a Budget account, Pipedream will open a popup window where you can sign into You Need a Budget and grant Pipedream permission to connect to your account. Pipedream securely stores and automatically refreshes the OAuth tokens so you can easily authenticate any You Need a Budget API.
Pipedream requests the following authorization scopes when you connect your account:
GET
https://app.youneedabudget.com/oauth/authorize
?
client_id={{oauth.client_id}}
&
redirect_uri={{oauth.redirect_uri}}
&
state={{oauth.state}}
&
response_type=code
&
scope={{oauth.space_separated_scopes}}
POST
https://app.youneedabudget.com/oauth/token
content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
accept: application/json
client_id={{oauth.client_id}}
&
client_secret={{oauth.client_secret}}
&
redirect_uri={{oauth.redirect_uri}}
&
grant_type=authorization_code
&
code={{oauth.code}}
POST
https://app.youneedabudget.com/oauth/token
content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
accept: application/json
client_id={{oauth.client_id}}
&
client_secret={{oauth.client_secret}}
&
grant_type=refresh_token
&
refresh_token={{oauth.refresh_token}}