Bank Feeds API enables your SMB users to set up bank feeds from accounts in your application to supported accounting platforms.
Bank Feeds API: Bank Feeds API enables your SMB users to set up bank feeds from accounts in your application to supported accounting software.
A bank feed is a connection between a source bank account in your application and a target bank account in a supported accounting software.
Explore product | See OpenAPI spec
Endpoints | Description |
---|---|
Companies | Create and manage your SMB users' companies. |
Connections | Create new and manage existing data connections for a company. |
Source accounts | Provide and manage lists of source bank accounts. |
Account mapping | Extra functionality for building an account management UI. |
Company information | Get detailed information about a company from the underlying platform. |
Transactions | Create new bank account transactions for a company's connections, and see previous operations. |
The SDK can be installed with either npm, pnpm, bun or yarn package managers.
npm add @codat/bank-feeds
pnpm add @codat/bank-feeds
bun add @codat/bank-feeds
yarn add @codat/bank-feeds zod
# Note that Yarn does not install peer dependencies automatically. You will need
# to install zod as shown above.
import { CodatBankFeeds } from "@codat/bank-feeds";
const codatBankFeeds = new CodatBankFeeds();
async function run() {
await codatBankFeeds.clientRateLimitReached({
id: "743ec94a-8aa4-44bb-8bd4-e1855ee0e74b",
eventType: "client.rateLimit.reached",
generatedDate: "2024-09-01T00:00:00Z",
payload: {
dailyQuota: 12000,
quotaRemaining: 0,
expiryDate: "2024-09-01T12:14:14Z",
},
});
}
run();
Available methods
- list - List bank accounts
- getCreateModel - Get create/update bank account model
- create - Create bank account
- create - Create company
- list - List companies
- get - Get company
- delete - Delete a company
- update - Update company
- getAccessToken - Get company access token
- get - Get company information
- list - List connections
- create - Create connection
- get - Get connection
- delete - Delete connection
- unlink - Unlink connection
- createBatch - Create source accounts
- create - Create single source account
- list - List source accounts
- update - Update source account
- delete - Delete source account
- generateCredentials - Generate source account credentials
- deleteCredentials - Delete all source account credentials
- getLastSuccessfulSync - Get last successful sync
- create - Create bank transactions
- getCreateModel - Get create bank transactions model
- getCreateOperation - Get create operation
- listCreateOperations - List create operations
Some of the endpoints in this SDK support retries. If you use the SDK without any configuration, it will fall back to the default retry strategy provided by the API. However, the default retry strategy can be overridden on a per-operation basis, or across the entire SDK.
To change the default retry strategy for a single API call, simply provide a retryConfig object to the call:
import { CodatBankFeeds } from "@codat/bank-feeds";
const codatBankFeeds = new CodatBankFeeds({
authHeader: "Basic BASE_64_ENCODED(API_KEY)",
});
async function run() {
const result = await codatBankFeeds.companies.create({
name: "Technicalium",
description: "Requested early access to the new financing scheme.",
}, {
retries: {
strategy: "backoff",
backoff: {
initialInterval: 1,
maxInterval: 50,
exponent: 1.1,
maxElapsedTime: 100,
},
retryConnectionErrors: false,
},
});
// Handle the result
console.log(result);
}
run();
If you'd like to override the default retry strategy for all operations that support retries, you can provide a retryConfig at SDK initialization:
import { CodatBankFeeds } from "@codat/bank-feeds";
const codatBankFeeds = new CodatBankFeeds({
retryConfig: {
strategy: "backoff",
backoff: {
initialInterval: 1,
maxInterval: 50,
exponent: 1.1,
maxElapsedTime: 100,
},
retryConnectionErrors: false,
},
authHeader: "Basic BASE_64_ENCODED(API_KEY)",
});
async function run() {
const result = await codatBankFeeds.companies.create({
name: "Technicalium",
description: "Requested early access to the new financing scheme.",
});
// Handle the result
console.log(result);
}
run();
Some methods specify known errors which can be thrown. All the known errors are enumerated in the sdk/models/errors/errors.ts
module. The known errors for a method are documented under the Errors tables in SDK docs. For example, the create
method may throw the following errors:
Error Type | Status Code | Content Type |
---|---|---|
errors.ErrorMessage | 400, 401, 402, 403, 429, 500, 503 | application/json |
errors.SDKError | 4XX, 5XX | */* |
If the method throws an error and it is not captured by the known errors, it will default to throwing a SDKError
.
import { CodatBankFeeds } from "@codat/bank-feeds";
import {
ErrorMessage,
SDKValidationError,
} from "@codat/bank-feeds/sdk/models/errors";
const codatBankFeeds = new CodatBankFeeds({
authHeader: "Basic BASE_64_ENCODED(API_KEY)",
});
async function run() {
let result;
try {
result = await codatBankFeeds.companies.create({
name: "Technicalium",
description: "Requested early access to the new financing scheme.",
});
// Handle the result
console.log(result);
} catch (err) {
switch (true) {
// The server response does not match the expected SDK schema
case (err instanceof SDKValidationError): {
// Pretty-print will provide a human-readable multi-line error message
console.error(err.pretty());
// Raw value may also be inspected
console.error(err.rawValue);
return;
}
case (err instanceof ErrorMessage): {
// Handle err.data$: ErrorMessageData
console.error(err);
return;
}
default: {
// Other errors such as network errors, see HTTPClientErrors for more details
throw err;
}
}
}
}
run();
Validation errors can also occur when either method arguments or data returned from the server do not match the expected format. The SDKValidationError
that is thrown as a result will capture the raw value that failed validation in an attribute called rawValue
. Additionally, a pretty()
method is available on this error that can be used to log a nicely formatted multi-line string since validation errors can list many issues and the plain error string may be difficult read when debugging.
In some rare cases, the SDK can fail to get a response from the server or even make the request due to unexpected circumstances such as network conditions. These types of errors are captured in the sdk/models/errors/httpclienterrors.ts
module:
HTTP Client Error | Description |
---|---|
RequestAbortedError | HTTP request was aborted by the client |
RequestTimeoutError | HTTP request timed out due to an AbortSignal signal |
ConnectionError | HTTP client was unable to make a request to a server |
InvalidRequestError | Any input used to create a request is invalid |
UnexpectedClientError | Unrecognised or unexpected error |
The default server can also be overridden globally by passing a URL to the serverURL: string
optional parameter when initializing the SDK client instance. For example:
import { CodatBankFeeds } from "@codat/bank-feeds";
const codatBankFeeds = new CodatBankFeeds({
serverURL: "https://api.codat.io",
authHeader: "Basic BASE_64_ENCODED(API_KEY)",
});
async function run() {
const result = await codatBankFeeds.companies.create({
name: "Technicalium",
description: "Requested early access to the new financing scheme.",
});
// Handle the result
console.log(result);
}
run();
The TypeScript SDK makes API calls using an HTTPClient
that wraps the native
Fetch API. This
client is a thin wrapper around fetch
and provides the ability to attach hooks
around the request lifecycle that can be used to modify the request or handle
errors and response.
The HTTPClient
constructor takes an optional fetcher
argument that can be
used to integrate a third-party HTTP client or when writing tests to mock out
the HTTP client and feed in fixtures.
The following example shows how to use the "beforeRequest"
hook to to add a
custom header and a timeout to requests and how to use the "requestError"
hook
to log errors:
import { CodatBankFeeds } from "@codat/bank-feeds";
import { HTTPClient } from "@codat/bank-feeds/lib/http";
const httpClient = new HTTPClient({
// fetcher takes a function that has the same signature as native `fetch`.
fetcher: (request) => {
return fetch(request);
}
});
httpClient.addHook("beforeRequest", (request) => {
const nextRequest = new Request(request, {
signal: request.signal || AbortSignal.timeout(5000)
});
nextRequest.headers.set("x-custom-header", "custom value");
return nextRequest;
});
httpClient.addHook("requestError", (error, request) => {
console.group("Request Error");
console.log("Reason:", `${error}`);
console.log("Endpoint:", `${request.method} ${request.url}`);
console.groupEnd();
});
const sdk = new CodatBankFeeds({ httpClient });
This SDK supports the following security scheme globally:
Name | Type | Scheme |
---|---|---|
authHeader |
apiKey | API key |
To authenticate with the API the authHeader
parameter must be set when initializing the SDK client instance. For example:
import { CodatBankFeeds } from "@codat/bank-feeds";
const codatBankFeeds = new CodatBankFeeds({
authHeader: "Basic BASE_64_ENCODED(API_KEY)",
});
async function run() {
const result = await codatBankFeeds.companies.create({
name: "Technicalium",
description: "Requested early access to the new financing scheme.",
});
// Handle the result
console.log(result);
}
run();
For supported JavaScript runtimes, please consult RUNTIMES.md.
All the methods listed above are available as standalone functions. These functions are ideal for use in applications running in the browser, serverless runtimes or other environments where application bundle size is a primary concern. When using a bundler to build your application, all unused functionality will be either excluded from the final bundle or tree-shaken away.
To read more about standalone functions, check FUNCTIONS.md.
Available standalone functions
-
accountMappingCreate
- Create bank feed account mapping -
accountMappingGet
- List bank feed accounts -
bankAccountsCreate
- Create bank account -
bankAccountsGetCreateModel
- Get create/update bank account model -
bankAccountsList
- List bank accounts -
companiesCreate
- Create company -
companiesDelete
- Delete a company -
companiesGet
- Get company -
companiesGetAccessToken
- Get company access token -
companiesList
- List companies -
companiesUpdate
- Update company -
companyInformationGet
- Get company information -
configurationGet
- Get configuration -
configurationSet
- Set configuration -
connectionsCreate
- Create connection -
connectionsDelete
- Delete connection -
connectionsGet
- Get connection -
connectionsList
- List connections -
connectionsUnlink
- Unlink connection -
sourceAccountsCreate
- Create single source account -
sourceAccountsCreateBatch
- Create source accounts -
sourceAccountsDelete
- Delete source account -
sourceAccountsDeleteCredentials
- Delete all source account credentials -
sourceAccountsGenerateCredentials
- Generate source account credentials -
sourceAccountsList
- List source accounts -
sourceAccountsUpdate
- Update source account -
syncGetLastSuccessfulSync
- Get last successful sync -
transactionsCreate
- Create bank transactions -
transactionsGetCreateModel
- Get create bank transactions model -
transactionsGetCreateOperation
- Get create operation -
transactionsListCreateOperations
- List create operations
Certain SDK methods accept files as part of a multi-part request. It is possible and typically recommended to upload files as a stream rather than reading the entire contents into memory. This avoids excessive memory consumption and potentially crashing with out-of-memory errors when working with very large files. The following example demonstrates how to attach a file stream to a request.
[!TIP]
Depending on your JavaScript runtime, there are convenient utilities that return a handle to a file without reading the entire contents into memory:
- Node.js v20+: Since v20, Node.js comes with a native
openAsBlob
function innode:fs
.- Bun: The native
Bun.file
function produces a file handle that can be used for streaming file uploads.- Browsers: All supported browsers return an instance to a
File
when reading the value from an<input type="file">
element.- Node.js v18: A file stream can be created using the
fileFrom
helper fromfetch-blob/from.js
.
import { CodatBankFeeds } from "@codat/bank-feeds";
import { openAsBlob } from "node:fs";
const codatBankFeeds = new CodatBankFeeds({
authHeader: "Basic BASE_64_ENCODED(API_KEY)",
});
async function run() {
const result = await codatBankFeeds.sourceAccounts.generateCredentials({
companyId: "8a210b68-6988-11ed-a1eb-0242ac120002",
connectionId: "2e9d2c44-f675-40ba-8049-353bfcb5e171",
requestBody: await openAsBlob("example.file"),
});
// Handle the result
console.log(result);
}
run();
You can setup your SDK to emit debug logs for SDK requests and responses.
You can pass a logger that matches console
's interface as an SDK option.
[!WARNING] Beware that debug logging will reveal secrets, like API tokens in headers, in log messages printed to a console or files. It's recommended to use this feature only during local development and not in production.
import { CodatBankFeeds } from "@codat/bank-feeds";
const sdk = new CodatBankFeeds({ debugLogger: console });
If you encounter any challenges while utilizing our SDKs, please don't hesitate to reach out for assistance. You can raise any issues by contacting your dedicated Codat representative or reaching out to our support team. We're here to help ensure a smooth experience for you.