YNAB & Telegram bot = 🧡 - Podlesnyy/YnabBot GitHub Wiki

I love YNAB for giving me control over my finances. I use YNAB almost every day. And little discontent inevitably arises with such heavy use.

Have you tried to count how many actions you need to add a transaction at the time of purchase?

Now imagine: I'm on the market. I buying apples, potatoes, carrots, onions, greens, berries, fish, meat, butter. All this from different sellers. There are a lot of people around. Remembering everything and driving home transactions is not an option for me. To drive right into the application right away is a long time! And I don’t want to show my balance to everyone around me. What to do?

Or now imagine that it’s not you in the market, but your 12-year-old child. I am absolutely sure that you will never put the YNAB app on his phone. But it would be convenient for him to immediately drive in transactions.

And I thought: my salvation is telegram bot!Of course, I did not find…

So I continued to cry, but use the YNAB app in a market)

But that's not all that annoyed me. I live in Moscow, Russia. And YNAB has no native integration with any Russian bank. How inconvenient to transfer data on bank transactions manually. YNAB has the ability to import data from a csv file, and banks have the ability to upload transactions to a csv file. But the format of these files is different!

And then I remembered that I am a programmer. I wrote a desktop application that parses bank files and exports them to csv. Then I did Drag & Drop in the YNAB app in the browser. It worked. But there were minuses. Again, a bunch of handmade. And my application only worked on the desktop.I couldn’t run it up on the phone. But it would be convenient - you download a file with transactions from your bank and send it to the bot. The bot parses and adds transactions to YNAB.

I got tired of this situation and I decided to write such a bot myself.