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 Python API

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

Run Python Code with Python API on Category Overspent from You Need a Budget API
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Run Python Code with Python API on Low Account Balance from You Need a Budget API
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Run Python Code with Python API on Low Category Balance from You Need a Budget API
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Run Python Code with Python API on New or Updated Transaction from You Need a Budget API
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Run Python Code with Python 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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Run Python Code with the Python API

Write Python and use any of the 350k+ PyPi packages available. Refer to the Pipedream Python docs to learn more.

 
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Create Transaction with the You Need a Budget API

Creates a single transaction. See the docs

 
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Get Account with the You Need a Budget API

Get an account specified by ID. See the docs

 
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List Accounts with the You Need a Budget API

List all accounts for a specific budget. See the docs

 
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Update Category Budget with the You Need a Budget API

Update a category budget for a specific month. See the docs

 
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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 Python

Python API on Pipedream offers developers to build or automate a variety of
tasks from their web and cloud apps. With the Python API, users are able to
create comprehensive and flexible scripts, compose and manage environment
variables, and configure resources to perform a range of functions.

By using Pipedream, you can easily:

  • Create automated workflows that run on a specific schedule
  • Compose workflows across various apps and services
  • React to events in cloud services or form data
  • Automatically create content and notifications
  • Construct classifications and predictions
  • Analyze and react to sentiment, sentiment analysis and sentiment score
  • Connect backends to the frontend with serverless functions
  • Work with files and databases
  • Perform web requests and fetch data
  • Integrate third-party APIs into your apps
  • Orchestrate data processing tasks and pipelines
  • Create powerful application APIs with authentication and authorization
  • Design CI/CD pipelines and Continuous Delivery services
  • Connect databases like MongoDB and MySQL
  • Monitor connections and events
  • Generate alerts and notifications for corresponding events

Connect Python

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def handler(pd: "pipedream"):
  # Reference data from previous steps
  print(pd.steps["trigger"]["context"]["id"])
  # Return data for use in future steps
  return {"foo": {"test":True}}