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 Snowflake API

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

Create Transaction with You Need a Budget API on New Row from Snowflake API
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Get Account with You Need a Budget API on New Row from Snowflake API
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List Accounts with You Need a Budget API on New Row from Snowflake API
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Update Category Budget with You Need a Budget API on New Row from Snowflake API
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Update Transaction with You Need a Budget API on New Row from Snowflake 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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New Row from the Snowflake API

Emit new event when a row is added to a table

 
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New Query Results from the Snowflake API

Run a SQL query on a schedule, triggering a workflow for each row of results

 
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Failed Task in Schema from the Snowflake API

Emit new events when a task fails in a database schema

 
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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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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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Insert Multiple Rows with the Snowflake API

Insert multiple rows into a table

 
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Insert Single Row with the Snowflake API

Insert a row into a table

 
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Overview of You Need a Budget

The You Need a Budget (YNAB) API offers a direct line into your budgeting data, allowing you to read and write transaction details, access budget categories, update account balances, and more. By leveraging this API on Pipedream, you can automate your financial tracking and synchronize your budget with other aspects of your financial life. This interface is particularly powerful for those looking to streamline their budgeting process, ensure real-time updates across platforms, and generate custom financial reports.

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 Snowflake

Snowflake offers a cloud database and related tools to help developers create robust, secure, and scalable data warehouses. See Snowflake's Key Concepts & Architecture.

Getting Started

1. Create a user, role and warehouse in Snowflake

Snowflake recommends you create a new user, role, and warehouse when you integrate a third-party tool like Pipedream. This way, you can control permissions via the user / role, and separate Pipedream compute and costs with the warehouse. You can do this directly in the Snowflake UI.

We recommend you create a read-only account if you only need to query Snowflake. If you need to insert data into Snowflake, add permissions on the appropriate objects after you create your user.

2. Enter those details in Pipedream

Visit https://pipedream.com/accounts. Click the button to Connect an App. Enter the required Snowflake account data.

You'll only need to connect your account once in Pipedream. You can connect this account to multiple workflows to run queries against Snowflake, insert data, and more.

3. Build your first workflow

Visit https://pipedream.com/new to build your first workflow. Pipedream workflows let you connect Snowflake with 1,000+ other apps. You can trigger workflows on Snowflake queries, sending results to Slack, Google Sheets, or any app that exposes an API. Or you can accept data from another app, transform it with Python, Node.js, Go or Bash code, and insert it into Snowflake.

Learn more at Pipedream University.

Connect Snowflake

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import { promisify } from 'util'
import snowflake from 'snowflake-sdk'

export default defineComponent({
  props: {
    snowflake: {
      type: "app",
      app: "snowflake",
    }
  },
  async run({steps, $}) {
    const connection = snowflake.createConnection({
      ...this.snowflake.$auth,
      application: "PIPEDREAM_PIPEDREAM",
    })
    const connectAsync = promisify(connection.connect)
    await connectAsync()
    
    async function connExecuteAsync(options) {
      return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
        connection.execute({
          ...options,
          complete: function(err, stmt, rows) {
            if (err) {
              reject(err)
            } else {
              resolve({stmt, rows})
            }
          }
        })
      })
    }
    
    // See https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/nodejs-driver-use.html#executing-statements
    const { rows } = await connExecuteAsync({
      sqlText: `SELECT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP()`,
    })
    return rows
  },
})