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 Twilio API

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

Send SMS with Twilio API on Category Overspent from You Need a Budget API
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Send SMS with Twilio API on Low Account Balance from You Need a Budget API
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Send SMS with Twilio API on Low Category Balance from You Need a Budget API
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Send SMS with Twilio API on New or Updated Transaction from You Need a Budget API
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Send SMS with Twilio 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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New Incoming SMS (Instant) from the Twilio API

Emit new event every time an SMS is sent to the phone number set. Configures a webhook in Twilio, tied to an incoming phone number.

 
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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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Send SMS with the Twilio API

Send a simple text-only SMS. See the docs for more information

 
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Create Transaction with the You Need a Budget API

Creates a single transaction. See the docs

 
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Make a Phone Call with the Twilio API

Make a phone call, passing text that Twilio will speak to the recipient of the call. See the docs for more information

 
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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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Send MMS with the Twilio API

Send an SMS with text and media files. See the docs for more information

 
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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 Twilio

With the Twilio API, you can build telephone applications that make and receive
phone calls, as well astext messaging applications that send and receive text
messages.

Some examples of applications you could build include:

  • A phone call application that allows you to make and receive phone calls over
    the internet
  • A text messaging application that allows you to send and receive text
    messages over the internet
  • A voicemail application that allows you to leave and receive voicemails over
    the internet

Connect Twilio

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import { axios } from "@pipedream/platform"
export default defineComponent({
  props: {
    twilio: {
      type: "app",
      app: "twilio",
    }
  },
  async run({steps, $}) {
    return await axios($, {
      url: `https://api.twilio.com/2010-04-01/Accounts.json`,
      auth: {
        username: `${this.twilio.$auth.AccountSid}`,
        password: `${this.twilio.$auth.AuthToken}`,
      },
    })
  },
})

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