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You Need a Budget ACTION

Update Category Budget

Update a category budget for a specific month. See the docs
  • Action
  • Writes data
  • Destructive
  • OAuth
  • SDK
  • MCP

IMPLEMENTATION

Call this tool

Connect a user's You Need a Budget account once, then configure and run Update Category Budget from your backend or agent.

import { PipedreamClient } from "@pipedream/sdk"

const pd = new PipedreamClient({
  projectId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_PROJECT_ID!,
  clientId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_ID!,
  clientSecret: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_SECRET!,
  projectEnvironment: "production",
})

const result = await pd.actions.run({
  id: "you_need_a_budget-update-category-budget",
  externalUserId: "{external_user_id}", // any stable ID for this user in your system
  configuredProps: {
    you_need_a_budget: { authProvisionId: "apn_xxxxxxx" },
    budgetId: "Budget ID",
    categoryId: "Category ID",
  },
})

console.log(result)

SCHEMA

Inputs

Pipedream supplies the connected account. Your application provides the operation-specific values below. Dynamic inputs are resolved against that user's account.

Update Category Budget inputs
Property Type Description
budgetId Budget ID string
Budget ID
Required Dynamic
categoryId Category ID string
The category for a budget
Required Dynamic
budget Budget string
E.g. -290.99
Required
month Month string
The month for a budget. Default is the current month
Optional Dynamic

REFERENCE

Tool details

Behavior hints are published with the component in the Pipedream registry and surface as MCP tool annotations, so an agent can reason about a tool before it calls it.

Registry key
you_need_a_budget-update-category-budget
Version
0.0.4
App
You Need a Budget
Authentication
OAuth
Read-only
No
Destructive
Yes
Open world
Yes