MintChecker accesses a user's Mint.com account, provides various analysis on the accounts there based on configuration data in the file. It then emails the result to one or more accounts.
You will probably need to install the following modules (there may be more, depending on how you have currently configured your python environment.
pip install -y requests selenium-requests xmltodict dominate python-dateutil gspread oauth2client google-auth-oauthlibThe provided sample.ini file must be edited with your own information:
[mint connection]
# username is the username to access mint
username: [email protected]
# password is the password to access mint
password: MY_PASSWORD
# these two cookies are obtained from your browser when accessing mint (will be removed at a later date)
# remove_duplicates indicate duplicate entries should be removed
remove_duplicates: False
# any account name containing this keyword will be ignored. This is set in Mint by renaming the account and adding this
# keyword
ignore_accounts_containing: duplicate_keyword
# run in headless mode. By default, the specified browser will pop up. If this is intended to be run autonomously or on a machine with no graphic interface, this should be set to True
headless=True
[debug]
# download indicates the data should be retrieved from mint. If it doesn't, it will get the data from a previous
# download that stored its values in the pickle_file
mint_download: True
# saves the email as a file (as well as emails it, if set)
save_html: mailing.html
# mint_pickle_file is used to store the massaged collected data to be used if download is False
mint_pickle_file: MintCheck.pickle
# debugging indicates that additional debug (extremely verbose) logging should be turned on.
debugging: False
# sheets_download indicates that google sheets data should be downloaded
sheets_download: True
# copy_admin will copy admin_email (under the [General] section) with all emails
copy_admin: True
# attach_log indicates the log is to be attached to the admin_email in the general section
attach_log: False
# indicates that MintCheck should send emails (default is True)
send_email: True
# Specified the file to save downloaded accounts in:
accounts_pickle_file:Accounts.pickle
# DEBUG:To prevent sheets downloads, uncomment:
# download_sheets:False
# DEBUG:To prevent file downloads, uncomment:
# download_mint:False
# DEBUG:To prevent emails, uncomment:
# send_email:False
[general]
pickle_folder:pickle
html_folder:html
week_start:monday
month_start:1
admin_email:my_email@goes_here.com
users:"all"
# DEBUG:To mail to only me, uncomment the following (overrides looking for users in braces)
users:"Me"
max_sleep:10
exceptions_to:"[email protected]"
google_sheets:"all", "My Sheet"
[google_sheets]
json_file:MintCheck.json
max_day_error:7
paid_color:blueviolet
unpaid_color:crimson
[My Sheet]
# %Y year (2016)
# %B month (December)
sheet_name:Transactions for West New Haven Plaza %Y
amount_col:M
notes_col:L
date_col:K
start_row:9
tab_name:%B
deposit_account:Fu Hwa Checking - 2213
[paid from]
credit card #1:checking account #a
credit card #2:checking account #b
[balance warnings]
credit card #1 >10
checking account #b < 100
[colors]
red:"fee", "charge"
purple:"keyword"
[account_types]
bank_fg_color:green
credit_fg_color:orange
[past_due]
days_before:5
fg_color:green
[locale]
Linux:en_US.utf8
Windows:us_us
[email connection]
username:[email protected]
password:password (i.e. Google application password)
from:Mint Checker
[User 1]
email:"[email protected]"
subject:All Accounts
active_accounts:"all"
ignore_accounts:
frequency:"daily", "monthly", "weekly", "biweekly"
rename_account:
rename_institution:
#accounts:"all"
[User 2]
email:"[email protected]"
subject:only accounts needed by user 2
active_accounts:"account name1", "account name2"
ignore_accounts:
frequency:"monthly", "weekly"
rename_account:
rename_institution: