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I’ve been after something like this as well. My bank only provides statements in PDF format which is pretty irritating. I’ve seen this library recommended for extracting tables from PDFs if you are dealing with that issue. I’m not sure if there is a great way to automatically download the statements though.
https://py-pdf-parser.readthedocs.io/en/latest/overview.html
I know that banks in Europe are bound by law to follow PSD2, which is a set of guidelines to propose APIs. I found a stackoverflow post to generate the required certificates for that but those are only supposed to be for testing purposes https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50045376/how-to-create-eidas-certificate-with-qwac-and-qsealc-profiles-psd2-specific-att
You can use the PSD2 api to fetch the transactions from your account directly, that would be a lot less troublesome. There is also the woob (formerly weboob) project that has web scraping for a lot of banks (specifically french but also some American ones like amex)
I just went the parsing CSV route, but it's only semi-automated. Still a lot better than manually entering everything. Annoyingly, every bank uses a different damn format so you need specific config for all of them.