The first piece we’re building for the Hyperlocal CU prototype (check the link for a page with screenshots, link to the source code, and a link to the prototype) is a transaction register that uses real business names wherever possible. I’d like to make this as realistic as possible, so I’m looking for sample transaction data if anyone is willing to provide it. You can strip the dates and amounts—I mostly just need the transaction memos. If you’re willing to participate, please send me an email at matt at trabian dot com. And if you’d like to keep it anonymous, you can post the contents of your register as a CSV or TXT file as a private gist and leave a link to the gist in the comments. Even if your transaction memos look garbled, that’s fine – the more realistic the data, the more realistic the prototype.

I’d really like to have a source of sample data that we could access on-demand using OFX. Does anyone have such a source available?

The transaction register with some sample unformatted data from my account is at hyperlocalcu.com. If you hover over one of the descriptions you’ll see the raw description:

I’m not sure why the description has random spaces in it – that’s how it was in the file I downloaded through online banking. I think the closer we get to the initial source through OFX, the better the data will be.

Thanks for your help!