Please enable JavaScript to continue!

API
All topics

Community

Announcements

About this Forum

Journals

Community Challenges

Managing Debt

YNAB Wins

Investing & Retirement

Saving

Small Business

Student Life

Parenting

Travel

Money & Relationships

Tips & Tricks

API

Q&A

App Functions

Getting Started

Method & Budgeting

Accounts & Transactions

Credit Cards

Budgeting on Mobile

Debt

Bank Importing

Help Docs

Community Guide

Welcome! This is where we can talk all things API. If you have a feature request or think you've found a bug, please reach out to our API support team at api@youneedabudget.com

Follow

[Possible bug] Deleted/Old Categories showing up in /categories
I am getting a bunch of categories showing up in my response to /categories that are no longer in my budget. They are categories I formerly used (some even from my YNAB 4 budget) that no longer…
- Dillon Mulroy
- Gold_Screwdiver_dbd8e2f
- 7 mths ago
- 5 replies
- 940
- BradyYNAB Team7 mths ago
- API
- Fixed
- Fixed
Thank you for the API!
Hey YNAB team! I just wanted to thank you for opening up your API. Until today I had to enter every single transaction by hand, but thanks to you API now every transaction shows up automagically…
- Frits
- frits
- 7 mths ago
- 2 replies
- 1005
- 4
- BradyYNAB Team7 mths ago
- API
Feature Request: PUT endpoint for Categories
Hello, I would love to be able to update a category's `budgeted` amount programmatically. My use case is to detect certain payments and automatically distribute it to my budget.
- Ben Olive
- sionide21
- 7 mths ago
- 1 reply
- 352
- 1
- AngelaYNAB Support7 mths ago
- API
- Added to feature requests
- Added to feature requests
Cannot create a new token
On the developer settings page, when I click "new token" -> "generate", a new token appears on top of the page. But when I use the token, the API shows an "Unauthorized" error.…
- Wessel
- wessel
- 7 mths ago
- 4 replies
- 411
- Wessel7 mths ago
- API
- Fixed
- Fixed
v1/budgets/:budget_id endpoint
Hi, just a couple of issues I'm having with the single budget endpoint. It seems the data.budget.categories excludes deleted categories (which is what I want),…
- thomas_
- thomas
- 7 mths ago
- 1 reply
- 290
- BradyYNAB Team7 mths ago
- API
Discrepancy on HTTP Status Code for duplicates
Your documentation states that duplicates will throw a 422 status code, but I'm seeing in my testing that it is throwing a 400 instead with the following json response...…
- Robert
- robertmiles3
- 7 mths ago
- 3 replies
- 1191
- Robert7 mths ago
- API
- Answered
- Answered
Resetting import_id's stored on account
Hello, I am testing importing transactions from Starling and have made good progress, however to continue testing I'd like to delete the imported transactions and re-import them again.…
- Navy Blue Pegasus
- Navy_Blue_Pegasus.1
- 8 mths ago
- 3 replies
- 900
- Robert7 mths ago
- API
Can we make import_id max length longer than 36 chars?
I just started testing my integration, and I'm using the Plaid service to get transactions from the bank to send over to YNAB. However, the Plaid transaction_id is 38 characters long so it's just…
- Robert
- robertmiles3
- 7 mths ago
- 2 replies
- 552
- 1
- Robert7 mths ago
- API
What's up with Categories in /budgets/{budget_id}?
I noticed really weird output in /budgets/{budget_id}. What exactly is the Categories list supposed to represent? I noticed that it contains nearly 4000 entries for my budget of only a couple of…
- Landy Bible
- ljb2of3
- 8 mths ago
- 3 replies
- 242
- 1
- BradyYNAB Team8 mths ago
- API
Changes to OAuth Applications
We've made some changes to OAuth applications that I would like to share with you. The most notable change is that all new OAuth applications (including ones that were created before we rolled these…
- BradyYNAB Team
- Developer
- brady_ynab
- 8 mths ago
- 265
- API
pynab started: a python module for easy ynab api handling
https://github.com/advorsky73/pynab I just started, but all get data methods are already implemented if you want to give it a try already. I am doing this in my spare time, so no guarantees,…
- ADvorsky
- advorsky
- 8 mths ago
- 284
- 2
- API
Suggestion> Demo account for experimenting and unit testing
Hi there! Congratulations to your new API, what i have seen so far looks pretty nice. I started writing a python wrapper for your API and ran into the issue of unit testing it.…
- ADvorsky
- advorsky
- 8 mths ago
- 1 reply
- 861
- 1
- KodyYNAB Support8 mths ago
- API
- Added to feature requests
- Added to feature requests
New transaction refused as duplicate of deleted transaction
Thanks for creating the API, it's awesome! After deleting a batch of transactions and uploading them again, I noticed that the new upload was still marked as duplicate.…
- Wessel
- wessel
- 9 mths ago
- 2 replies
- 806
- 1
- Wessel9 mths ago
- API
- Answered
- Answered
Script to upload transactions from BUNQ to YNAB
Now that both YNAB and my bank ( BUNQ ) have an API, I thought I'd try to write a script to connect them. It was a bit more work then expected but I finally got everything working.…
- Wessel
- wessel
- 9 mths ago
- 1 reply
- 270
- AngelaYNAB Support9 mths ago
- API
Recent updates
Here are a few updates we've made the the API that we hope you'll enjoy: The /budget/:id/transactions endpoint response now includes payee_name , category_name ,…
- BradyYNAB Team
- Developer
- brady_ynab
- 9 mths ago
- 204
- 1
- API
Is rate limiting by IP address, application, or user?
The docs say "You may make up to 200 requests per hour", but it is not clear what "you" refers to. Is this the application? Is it for a single user using an application? Is it by IP address?…
- Aaron Parecki
- aaronpk
- 9 mths ago
- 1 reply
- 180
- 1
- AngelaYNAB Support9 mths ago
- API
- Answered
- Answered
Reply to previous thread (can't reply in thread for some reason)
I figured out the issue with my previous post , but I cannot reply to update the thread. It would be very helpful if we could reply to our posts. Here's the reply I would have written:…
- Turquoise Jackal
- Turquoise_Jackal
- 1 yr ago
- 11 replies
- 227
- BradyYNAB Team9 mths ago
- API
- Answered
- Answered
Get user details
Hi there, Is there a way to retrieve some details about a user (id, email) after an OAuth token has been retrieved? I can only see a list of budgets or accounts for now as the most high-level…
- chbndrhnns
- Cloud Test Engineer
- Magenta_Deer_43f0695638
- 10 mths ago
- 8 replies
- 688
- 1
- chbndrhnns10 mths ago
- API
- Completed
- Completed
CORS support
The API now supports CORS so that it can be used from within a browser context directly. Also, the JavaScript client has been updated to include a browser friendly client: https://github.…
- BradyYNAB Team
- Developer
- brady_ynab
- 10 mths ago
- 145
- 1
- API
Authentication not working in a browser
I am not sure if I am doing something wrong or if the API is disallowing headers via CORS. I am working on my Raspberry Pi dashboard and have code like this: function fetchYnab(path) { return $.…
- Buck Ryan
- Gold_Commander
- 11 mths ago
- 3 replies
- 492
- BradyYNAB Team10 mths ago
- API
- Answered
- Answered
What endpoints support server_knowledge?
I am looking in the documentation and I am not seeing what endpoints support server_knowledge. I can see it mentioned in a section saying that the budgets endpoint supports it,…
- Jerry Lopez
- jerrylopez
- 10 mths ago
- 1 reply
- 170
- TaytayYNAB Team10 mths ago
- API
- Answered
- Answered
Guidelines for Ynab brand in 3rd party applications
Now that we can use OAuth authentication with the API and distribute any custom integrations to all Ynab users, are there any guidelines/restrictions with using the Ynab name or logo as part of an…
- Eli Encarnacion
- Ivory_Lightning
- 10 mths ago
- 2 replies
- 868
- 1
- AngelaYNAB Support10 mths ago
- API
- Answered
- Answered
JavaScript Doc
Where is the JavaScript doc? Are the examples in the GitHub project it? I was hoping for something along the lines of what you've got the Endpoints or at least add JavaScript class name, params,…
- David Baldon
- Toolkit Contributor
- dbaldon
- 10 mths ago
- 3 replies
- 356
- David Baldon10 mths ago
- API
- Added to feature requests
- Added to feature requests
Repeat rules for "TwiceAMonth" frequency
Many of the frequency enum types are self explanatory for finding the next occurrence. But `TwiceAMonth` seems to be an old ball. What are the rules for finding the next occurrence?…
- Joshua Peek
- joshpeek
- 10 mths ago
- 3 replies
- 153
- Joshua Peek10 mths ago
- API
- Answered
- Answered
Deleted categories on the GET "Single Budget Month" request?
I'm making a request to GET /budgets/<id>/month/current and I notice there several categories that are not part of my budget in the Ynab webapp. Some of the categories are familiar so I assumed…
- Eli Encarnacion
- Ivory_Lightning
- 10 mths ago
- 2 replies
- 176
- 1
- Eli Encarnacion10 mths ago
- API
- Fixed
- Fixed

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Next

Back to top

Welcome! This is where we can talk all things API. If you have a feature request or think you've found a bug, please reach out to our API support team at api@youneedabudget.com

Start Your Free YNAB Trial

Important Links

Community Guidelines

Feature Requests

Categories

View all topics

Top Contributors

Help Docs

Still have a question? Want to view the official guide on your topic?

Go to Help Docs

YNAB.

Follow YNAB to get support and lots of great ideas on budgeting

Powered by Forumbee