So I have been working on a project to create a connection from bunq to IFTTT, using the bunq API, the developer tools provided by the IFTTT Platform and Google App Engine.

This allows me to do a number of cool things, e.g.:
- Receive a notification if the balance is below a certain amount
- Create a draft payment every week for pocket money for your kid
- Once your salary has been received, turn on a Hue colorloop
- Auto-save a part of your salary, save more when you receive a bonus
- Once a request for money is received, create a draft payment to fund it
- Auto-save 5 percent of every card payment
- Put received VAT aside in a separate account
And many more...

Now, given that this it is not possible for me to publish the bunq service on IFTTT for everyone to use, the way this works is that you:
- host your own copy of bunq2IFTTT and connect it with the bunq API
- create your own private service on the IFTTT Platform, which only you can use

It will cost quite a bit of time to configure this properly, and while everything is explained in the documentation, you should know what you are doing. If you are afraid of source code, don't know what cloud hosting is and/or never used a command line, then this is probably not for you!

If however you don't want to wait for the Flow app, or prefer a solution under your own control, then this may be for you!

All services used are free in principle, provided you have a premium bunq account for the OAuth/API key, and provided you do not exceed the free usage limits with Google App Engine.

More info:
- Github repository: https://github.com/woudt/bunq2ifttt/
- Wiki with instructions: https://github.com/woudt/bunq2ifttt/wiki

    Edwin changed the title to bunq2IFTTT - Do it yourself connection of bunq to IFTTT.

      Great! Thanks Edwin, love it :) - I will look into it asap. Do you need to run in through Google App engine? Or could I use any cloud provider like TransIP, DigitalOcean or Vultr?

        @xvilo#99411 You can use any cloud provider, though you'll have to do some work to install a proper WSGI server for the Flask framework I use, as GAE provides one automatically. See http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/1.0/deploying/

        Let me know how it goes. One day I may add a proper tutorial for hosting it outside GAE.

          Looks very nice in that picture, but I assume it will cost monthly to keep it running right?
          I hope bunq🌈 will come with their own so we can use that for free.

          But really nice job!

            @Jos-Golden-Unicorn#99472 There are no costs, apart from obviously needing a premium/joint/business/pack account with bunq to get access to the API (which isn't provided with free or travel card). I have been running this personally at no cost for about 6 months now...

            IFTTT has a developer platform, which is free for your own use, and only costs money if you want to publish it to other users. But everything that I have shown can be done with the free version.

            Google app engine allows you to run a number of projects (25 or something) for free, provided these do not exceed the free usage limits. Unless you have thousands of transactions a day, you should not come close to that.

              @Edwin-Red-Lion#99474 Than I will have a look later today, because this would indeed be very nice!

                @Jos-Golden-Unicorn#99483 Let me know how it went. Would be good to hear any feedback you have!

                  @Edwin-Red-Lion#99679 , great work! I've setup the Google cloud service and IFTTT. It takes an hour to setup, but then I am able to create draft payments. Now I am working on the installation on the slave on my Raspberry Pi. Since I am running Pyhton 3.5, I am missing module 'secrets'. So now I am upgrading to Python 3.7 to see it that will solve that issue.

                    @Arnim#99699 Indeed, python 3.6 or higher is required, so an upgrade should solve the problem.

                    Great to hear that the setup worked. Yes, it takes a while ;)

                      @Edwin-Red-Lion#99367 This looks amazing - thank you so much for creating it and putting so much effort in it. I love your documentation - looks like I can try this with my skill level and will do so as soon as possible.
                      Thanks a again and have a great evening!

                        @Edwin-Red-Lion#99701 Got python 3.7 installed on my pi and followed the instructions. Callbacks are working too now in IFTTT! Although I am not a python coder at all, I just followed the instructions, googled a lot to install some pi modules and finally got it all set up. Thanks again for the solution and detailed instructions!

                          Leuk idee! Dan kan ik me hue lampen laten knipperen als er geld binnen komt! Of google assistent me het laten vertellen dus...

                            Dies this also work with joint accounts or just personal accounts?

                              @Phil#100418 I am on a joint membership with some joint accounts as well as personal accounts myself and I can confirm that both are working.

                                @Arnim#100401 I just realized the instructions on installing the python dependencies were lacking, so I have updated the documentation.

                                Thanks for the positive feedback! Let me know if you have any other comments.