BankProxy

BankProxy is a services, which helps with the interaction with the interfaces of banks. It supports retrieval of transaction and initiation of payments. The interface is based on the NextGenPSD2 standard of the Berlin Group for maximum interoperability.

The service is meant to be deployed beside other services which need access to bank accounts. It provides an unified interface and provides an additional layer of security for handling sensitive login credentials.

BankProxy can call standardised REST API endpoints, parses the HTTP responses of the online banking interface or controls a whole browser instance, to interact with the bank. Which behaviour will be used, depends on the selected connector, which must be configured for every account.

Documentation

Detailed information about BankProxy can be found on https://bankproxy.github.io.

Installation

Docker (recommended)

Docker is the recommended way to use BankProxy.

docker run -p 3000:3000 ghcr.io/bankproxy/bankproxy

Manual installation

To run BankProxy a working Node.js installation (at least v15.0) with npm is required. To be able to use all supported banks all dependencies of the Chromium browser must be installed. The easiest way to accomplish that, is to just install Chromium via the system package manager.

When all dependencies are met BankProxy can be started with the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/bankproxy/bankproxy
cd bankproxy
npm install --production
npm start

Configuration

To run BankProxy in production a few environment variables must be set:

PORT: Port to bind the service to, e.g. 3000
DATABASE_URL: URL to the Database server, e.g. postgres://user:pass@host/database
SECRET_KEY: Key for encryption, e.g. 2c31ff7560eddb214c85853b952af7ee
REDIS_URL: URL to the Redis server, e.g. redis://host
BASE_URL: Public base URL of the service , e.g. https://bankproxy.example.com
ADMIN_AUTHORIZE_URL: URL to redirect for authorization in the admin interface,
ADMIN_JWT_ALGORITHM: Algorithm used to sign the admin access JWT
ADMIN_JWT_SECRET: Secret used to sign the admin access JWT
ADMIN_JWT_AUDIENCE: Expected aud in the admin access JWT

Please check out the documentation for more details about the configuration.

License

All the code in this repository is released under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0, for more information take a look at the [LICENSE] file.

Please write an mail to paroga@paroga.com if you need support for additional banks or have different license requirements (e.g. commercial license).