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.
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Overview#
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.
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}`,
},
})
},
})
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Example Use Cases#
Automated Transaction Recording: When you make a purchase with a credit card that's tracked by another service like Plaid, Pipedream can catch the transaction via a webhook. It then automatically logs this new transaction in the appropriate YNAB budget category, keeping your budget up to date without manual entry.
Category Balance Alerts: Set up a daily scheduled workflow on Pipedream to check your YNAB category balances. If any category's balance falls below a predefined threshold, Pipedream sends an alert via SMS using Twilio or an email through SendGrid, helping you to stay on top of your budgeting goals.
Expense Report Generation: At the end of each month, a Pipedream workflow compiles transactions and budget category data from YNAB and formats a custom expense report. The report could then be sent to your email or uploaded to Google Drive for easy access and sharing with family or financial advisors.
Popular You Need a Budget Integrations#
Popular You Need a Budget Triggers#
Emit new event when an account balance drops below a certain amount
Emit new event when a category balance drops below a certain amount
Emit new event for every new or updated transaction. See the docs
Emit new event for every spending in an account. See the docs
Popular You Need a Budget Actions#
Authentication#
Name Slug: you_need_a_budgetYou Need a Budget uses OAuth authentication. When you connect your You Need a Budget account, Pipedream will open a popup window where you can sign into You Need a Budget and grant Pipedream permission to connect to your account. Pipedream securely stores and automatically refreshes the OAuth tokens so you can easily authenticate any You Need a Budget API.
Pipedream requests the following authorization scopes when you connect your account:
- authorization
GEThttps://app.youneedabudget.com/oauth/authorize?client_id={{oauth.client_id}}&redirect_uri={{oauth.redirect_uri}}&state={{oauth.state}}&response_type=code&scope={{oauth.space_separated_scopes}} - accessToken
POSThttps://app.youneedabudget.com/oauth/tokencontent-type:application/x-www-form-urlencodedaccept:application/jsonclient_id={{oauth.client_id}}&client_secret={{oauth.client_secret}}&redirect_uri={{oauth.redirect_uri}}&grant_type=authorization_code&code={{oauth.code}} - refreshToken
POSThttps://app.youneedabudget.com/oauth/tokencontent-type:application/x-www-form-urlencodedaccept:application/jsonclient_id={{oauth.client_id}}&client_secret={{oauth.client_secret}}&grant_type=refresh_token&refresh_token={{oauth.refresh_token}}
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