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 Schedule API

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

Create Transaction with You Need a Budget API on Custom Interval from Schedule API
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Create Transaction with You Need a Budget API on Daily schedule from Schedule API
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Create Transaction with You Need a Budget API on Monthly Schedule from Schedule API
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Create Transaction with You Need a Budget API on Weekly schedule from Schedule API
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Update Category Budget with You Need a Budget API on Custom Interval from Schedule 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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Custom Interval from the Schedule API

Trigger your workflow every N hours, minutes or seconds.

 
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Daily schedule from the Schedule API

Trigger your workflow every day.

 
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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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Monthly Schedule from the Schedule API

Trigger your workflow on one or more days each month at a specific time (with timezone support).

 
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Create Transaction with the You Need a Budget API

Creates a single transaction. 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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Update Transaction with the You Need a Budget API

Update an existing transaction. 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 Schedule

With Schedule - A trigger provided by Pipedream - You can easily build
automated workflows that run on regular times or intervals. Some examples of
things that you can build using the Schedule API include:

  • Automated data retrieval from a third-party service, like pulling stats from
    your Salesforce account on a set schedule.
  • Uploading new data sets to a database with a predetermined interval.
  • Automatic emails to customers or leads at a certain time of the day.
  • Automating data analysis based on a set schedule.
  • Automatically optimizing social media postings according to a specified
    timeline.
  • Updating webpages at a certain interval with newly available content.
  • Re-running reports on a periodic basis.
  • Refreshing a cache of data at a given frequency.