Use Make.com to Beemind Saving Money via YNAB

[narthur]

• Create a new Beeminder goal to track your savings. I called mine narthur/save, and set it to private.
• Edit the titles of all your savings / investment accounts in YNAB to add the hashtag #save.

• Create a new Make.com scenario and add two modules–YNAB list transactions and Beeminder create a datapoint.

• Configure the YNAB module to pull all transactions from your budget that are less than a week old, and to do this once daily.

• Configure a filter between the two modules to only accept positive-value transactions to #save accounts that aren’t balance adjustments or starting balances.

• Add a test transaction in YNAB, manually run the Make.com scenario, and confirm that the data makes it to Beeminder.

[narthur]

Turns out you’ll also need to add a module to ignore HTTP error responses, since the Beeminder API returns a 422 Duplicate request error if the request ID matches a previously created datapoint, and Make.com will eventually disable the scenario if these errors are unhandled. Unfortunately I haven’t figured out how to only handle this specific error, so I’ve added an “Ignore” module which will ignore all HTTP errors indiscriminately.

Info:

• Beeminder API Reference
• 422 Unprocessable Entity - HTTP | MDN
• Introduction to Error Handling
• Directives for error handling
• Integromat DevTool - Chrome Web Store