fetch-bank-data

name

fetch-bank-data

description

Use when the user says "fetch bank data", "pull from bank", "fetch hapoalim", "fetch cal", "fetch credit card", "pull from cal", or any morning-equivalent. Pulls fresh transactions + balances from Bank Hapoalim and Cal via `israeli-bank-scrapers`, reasons about each source's data to attach observation tags + a sidecar notes file, and stages paired files in local `inbox/staging/fetched/` for the next `sync-finance-data` run to ingest.

fetch-bank-data

You pull fresh data from the user's customer-facing bank + credit-card sites and stage reasoned files in local inbox/staging/fetched/. Sync owns ingestion — your job ends when the pairs are staged; sync ingests them into SQLite and deletes them after commit. Fetched data never goes to Drive: SQLite is its only persistence. You do not touch SQLite (beyond read-only queries), do not call the dashboard, do not send Telegram. Adding more issuers later (max, isracard, amex) is just one more [section] in .secrets/findash + one more mapping line below.

Where things live

• Scraper wrapper: scripts/fetch_bank.js (parameterized by --company)
• Node deps: scripts/package.json (israeli-bank-scrapers + puppeteer; run cd scripts && npm install once)
• Credentials: the [hapoalim] / [cal] sections of .secrets/findash (chmod 600)
• Per-company Chromium profile (persists trusted-device cookies + soft anti-bot state): ~/.cache/findash/chromium-profile/<companyId>/
• Staging dir — the fetch→sync handoff: inbox/staging/fetched/
• SQLite (read-only here, for date-range + own-account vocabulary): data/finance.db
• Doc-type shapes sync will see: docs/doc-types/full-statements.md (bank_api_dump, bank_api_notes, cal_api_dump, cal_api_notes)

Sources

company	scraper companyId	secrets section	env vars consumed by the script
hapoalim	hapoalim	[hapoalim]	HAPOALIM_USER_CODE, HAPOALIM_PASSWORD
cal	visaCal	[cal]	CAL_USERNAME, CAL_PASSWORD

Both sections are key=value lines under their […] header in .secrets/findash. Hapoalim uses user_code= and password=. Cal uses username= and password= (not user_code — matches Cal's login UI and the library's credential shape).

Both also accept START_DATE from env (ISO YYYY-MM-DD) — the script falls back to 60 days back if unset.

Flow

Run all configured sources in parallel unless the user explicitly named one ("fetch cal", "pull from hapoalim" → just that one). For each source:

1. Skip if no secrets

If a source has no credentials (no [<source>] section in .secrets/findash), silently skip that source and name it in the final summary. A one-bank user still gets a working skill.

2. Pick a start date

Query SQLite for the latest transaction date on accounts at that institution:

SELECT MAX(t.date)
FROM transactions t JOIN accounts a ON a.id = t.account_id
WHERE a.institution = ?;   -- 'Bank Hapoalim' or 'Cal'

Subtract a few days (3–5) for overlap safety — sync dedups, so re-sending recent rows is harmless. If the query returns NULL (no data yet for that institution), fall back to 60 days back. Cal-specific note: the first-ever Cal fetch has no accounts row at all — institution will not match anything; that's fine, the same 60-day fallback applies.

3. Run the scraper

The scraper reads credentials from .secrets/findash itself — never put them on the command line. That keeps the unattended claude -p run allowlist-safe (the command stays a clean node scripts/fetch_bank.js … prefix) and your password out of the transcript. Pass the step-2 window as a flag and read the JSON straight from stdout — no > redirection (the unattended run can't write to arbitrary paths):

node scripts/fetch_bank.js --company=hapoalim --start-date=YYYY-MM-DD

--company=visaCal for Cal. Substitute the step-2 start date for YYYY-MM-DD (the skill auto-computes one — this flag is just the override). Omit --start-date to default to 60 days back. Read the result from the command's stdout. The script exits:

• 0 — success, full library result as JSON on stdout
• 1 — scrape ran but success: false, errorType / errorMessage on stderr
• 2 — missing creds / Node too old / Puppeteer launch failure

On 1 or 2: surface the error verbatim, recommend --setup (see "When things break" below), and proceed to the next source. Don't write any files for the failing source.

4. Reason about the data

This is the whole point of the skill. The script returns raw library output; you interpret it. Different vocabulary per source kind:

Bank-account observations (Hapoalim):

• Round-trip — same-magnitude opposite-sign txns within ~14 days, same or related counterparty (e.g. <amount> ILS out to your brokerage on day 1, <amount> ILS back from your brokerage on day 4). Sync needs to know so it can classify both legs as transfer, not expense.
• Internal transfer — counterparty matches an own-account vocabulary string. Pull the vocabulary from the live accounts table:

  SELECT DISTINCT institution, name FROM accounts WHERE closed_on IS NULL;
  

  Then fuzzy-match against description / counterparty strings on each new txn — match your brokerage's name(s) and any savings/sprint indicators. Israeli brokerages often surface under several names (Hebrew + English), so match each known alias from the vocabulary above rather than a single exact string.
• First-time counterparty — the description/לטובת string has never been seen on this account before:

  SELECT 1 FROM transactions
  WHERE account_id = ? AND (description LIKE ? OR counterparty = ?)
  LIMIT 1;
  

  Flag with the counterparty name so sync knows to categorize carefully.
• Amount anomaly — outflow is > 2× the typical for that counterparty (compute typical from historical txns to the same counterparty on the same account).

Credit-card observations (Cal):

• Installment chain — rows where type === 'installments'. Group by identifier. Note "/ installments of group #" with the merchant name. All installments of one physical purchase share the same identifier, so this groups them naturally.
• Foreign-currency charge — originalCurrency !== 'ILS'. Note the implied rate chargedAmount / originalAmount along with merchant + original currency.
• First-time merchant — description never seen on any credit-card account in transactions (broader than Hapoalim's per-account check — the same merchant might have appeared on the Hapoalim Mastercard before). Query:

  SELECT 1 FROM transactions t JOIN accounts a ON a.id = t.account_id
  WHERE a.kind = 'credit_card' AND t.description LIKE ?
  LIMIT 1;
  

• Pending status — status === 'pending'. Flag so sync inserts with a [pending] marker and reconciles when the row reappears completed.

Cross-source observation (when both ran this turn):

• Sum Cal's completed charged amounts since the last Hapoalim card_payment (כאל) on Hapoalim's checking. Compare against the most recent (or next scheduled) card_payment on Hapoalim's side. Note any material divergence — the consolidated Cal-on-Hapoalim row should roughly match the Cal-side total.

Each observation becomes one bullet in the sidecar notes file and (if compact enough) one tag in the filename.

5. Build filename + tag string

Per source, per account, compose:

<YYYY-MM-DD>-<company>-<acct-suffix>-api-fetch[__<tag>__<tag>…].json
<YYYY-MM-DD>-<company>-<acct-suffix>-api-fetch[__<tag>__<tag>…].notes.md

Where:

• <YYYY-MM-DD> = today (the fetch date, not the txn date)
• <company> = hapoalim or cal
• <acct-suffix> = last 4 of the accountNumber field (Hapoalim returns a branch/account string; Cal returns a long card number)
• <tag> = compact kebab-case observation marker, joined with __

Tag vocabulary (keep terse so the filename stays under ~180 chars total):

• roundtrip-<amount-thousands>-<counterparty-slug> — e.g. roundtrip-5000-<brokerage>
• internal-<counterparty-slug> — e.g. internal-<brokerage>
• firsttime-<counterparty-slug>
• anomaly-<counterparty-slug>
• installments-<merchant-slug> — e.g. installments-amazon
• fx-<currency-lower>-<merchant-slug> — e.g. fx-usd-zara
• pending-<count> — e.g. pending-3
• cross-divergence-<thousands> — Cal vs Hapoalim card_payment mismatch

If a tag would push the filename past ~180 chars, drop the lowest-priority tags (anomaly < firsttime < internal < fx < installments < roundtrip < pending) and keep the rest in the sidecar.

Quiet day = no tags. Plain 2026-05-22-hapoalim-<acct-suffix>-api-fetch.json is correct when no patterns triggered.

6. Write the pair to inbox/staging/fetched/

mkdir -p inbox/staging/fetched first. For each account on each source:

• .json — the full library result for that account only (slice accounts[i]), pretty-printed. Preserves every field including ones we don't currently use. Sync re-parses from this.
• .notes.md — one bullet per observation:

# fetch notes — 2026-05-22 — cal <acct-suffix>

- installments: 2/6 of group #<identifier>, <merchant> <amount> ILS
- fx: AMAZON.COM USD 45.20 → ILS 167.10 (rate 3.697)
- first-time merchant: SHOPIFY APP STORE
- 3 rows pending; expect to reconcile on next fetch

Header line names date + company + acct suffix so a sync run reading both files together has the linkage even if the filenames get truncated by a UI.

If an account has zero txns since the start date, skip writing files for that account — the summary should say "no activity since <last-date>".

If a same-named pair is already sitting in staging (an earlier fetch today that sync hasn't ingested yet), overwrite it — the newer scrape supersedes it.

7. Stop — staging is the handoff

Do not upload anything, and do not delete the pairs. They stay in inbox/staging/fetched/ until the next sync-finance-data run ingests them into SQLite and deletes them after the commit. Pairs left behind by a crashed run are simply picked up by the next sync.

8. Report

Print a compact per-source summary, nothing else. Examples:

Hapoalim: 23 txns on <acct-a>, 7 txns on <acct-b>, 0 flags. 2 pairs staged for sync.
Cal: 17 txns on <acct-suffix>, 2 flags (installments-amazon, fx-usd-zara, pending-3). 1 pair staged.

If a source was skipped: Hapoalim: skipped (no [hapoalim] credentials). If a source failed: Cal: failed (errorType=GENERIC, errorMessage=…). Re-run: node scripts/fetch_bank.js --company=visaCal --setup.

Do not send to Telegram. Do not invoke sync. Do not touch the DB. End here.

When things break

• Hapoalim SMS OTP fires mid-week — Hapoalim may re-challenge for trusted device at its discretion. The scrape returns success: false, errorType: 'INVALID_PASSWORD' or similar. Tell the user to re-run interactively to re-trust the device:

  node scripts/fetch_bank.js --company=hapoalim --setup
  

• Cal CAPTCHA / soft-block — usually errorType: 'GENERIC' or 'TIMEOUT'. Re-run with --setup and solve the CAPTCHA visually:

  node scripts/fetch_bank.js --company=visaCal --setup
  

• Single-source failure — the other source proceeds. The summary names which one failed and which succeeded.
• First run ever, both sources — no DB rows for either institution → start date defaults to 60 days back for each. Cal's first run will also have no accounts row; sync auto-creates one on ingest.
• scripts/node_modules/ missing — cd scripts && npm install first. Skill stops before invoking the script if the install hasn't happened.
• Node version error (exit code 2 with version pointer) — nvm install 22 && nvm use 22, retry.

Principles

• Reasoning is yours, parsing is the script's. The script never categorizes, never decorates, never normalizes. It returns the library's raw output verbatim; everything else (tags, notes, cross-source checks) is your judgment.
• Notes are hints, not ground truth. Sync should verify against the underlying JSON and against cross-source documents (your brokerage's periodic statements, etc.) before trusting any bullet.
• Idempotency belongs to sync, not here. It's fine for two runs in the same morning to stage near-identical files; sync dedups via the synthetic document id local:fetch:<filename>:<sha256-first-12> (identical bytes = no-op skip; changed bytes = re-ingest) and via (account_id, date, …) content-key judgment when it actually ingests the txns.
• Atomicity per source. If Cal fails mid-flow, no Cal files land in staging. Hapoalim's files (if its run succeeded) are unaffected.
• Adding a new issuer is mechanical. New [section] in .secrets/findash, new mapping row in the table above, new env-var pair to load. No script change unless the new issuer's credential shape doesn't match {username, password} or {userCode, password}.