You Need a Budget

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.

Integrate the You Need a Budget API with the Google Sheets API

Setup the You Need a Budget API trigger to run a workflow which integrates with the Google Sheets API. Pipedream's integration platform allows you to integrate You Need a Budget and Google Sheets remarkably fast. Free for developers.

Add Single Row with Google Sheets API on Category Overspent from You Need a Budget API
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Add Single Row with Google Sheets API on Low Account Balance from You Need a Budget API
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Add Single Row with Google Sheets API on Low Category Balance from You Need a Budget API
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Add Single Row with Google Sheets API on New or Updated Transaction from You Need a Budget API
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Add Single Row with Google Sheets API on New Spending In Account from You Need a Budget API
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Category Overspent from the You Need a Budget API

Emit new event when a category budget is overspent

 
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Low Account Balance from the You Need a Budget API

Emit new event when an account balance drops below a certain amount

 
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Low Category Balance from the You Need a Budget API

Emit new event when a category balance drops below a certain amount

 
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New or Updated Transaction from the You Need a Budget API

Emit new event for every new or updated transaction. See the docs

 
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New Spending In Account from the You Need a Budget API

Emit new event for every spending in an account. See the docs

 
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Add Single Row with the Google Sheets API

Add a single row of data to Google Sheets

 
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Create Transaction with the You Need a Budget API

Creates a single transaction. See the docs

 
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Add Multiple Rows with the Google Sheets API

Add multiple rows of data to a Google Sheet

 
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Get Values with the Google Sheets API

Get all values from a sheet.

 
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Get Values in Range with the Google Sheets API

Get values from a range of cells using A1 notation.

 
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Overview of You Need a Budget

The 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:

  • Build an application to track expenses and generate reports
  • Monitor the balances of multiple budgets
  • Generate a budget snapshot based on accounts
  • Create custom visualizations and analytics tools
  • Create notifications when specific budget values change
  • Automate budgeting tasks, such as transfers and payments between accounts
  • Create interactive dashboards and track real-time trends
  • Enforce budgeting rules, such as threshold limits or budget goal tracking

Connect You Need a Budget

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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}`,
      },
    })
  },
})

Overview of Google Sheets

Some examples of things you can build using the Google Sheets API include:

  • A web app that lets users input data into a Google Sheet
  • A script that automatically updates a Google Sheet with data from another
    source
  • A tool that generates graphs and charts from data in a Google Sheet
  • A service that sends data from a Google Sheet to another API or application

Connect Google Sheets

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import { axios } from "@pipedream/platform"
export default defineComponent({
  props: {
    google_sheets: {
      type: "app",
      app: "google_sheets",
    }
  },
  async run({steps, $}) {
    return await axios($, {
      url: `https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v1/userinfo`,
      headers: {
        Authorization: `Bearer ${this.google_sheets.$auth.oauth_access_token}`,
      },
    })
  },
})
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