YNAB API Webhooks

Webhooks for the YNAB API. This application sends changes on a YNAB budget to a URL.

Each time this application runs, it will issue a Delta Request to the YNAB API and if changes are detected, it will POST those changes to the URL specified with the WEBHOOK_URL environment variable.

The application is not intended to be run as a server but invoked on a recurring basis from a scheduler like cron or Heroku Scheduler.

Setup

Local (Docker)

export YNAB_API_TOKEN=123 WEBHOOK_URL=https://mydomain.com/ynab-webhook-receive
docker-compose up --build --exit-code-from app

Heroku

The heroku.yml manifest file is used to define a Heroku application stack. The run command in heroku.yml will reference the SCHEDULE_INTERNAL_SECONDS environment variable (default: 30) and run this app on an internal in the Heroku environment.

Provisioning (one time)

heroku create ynab-api-webhooks --manifest
heroku config:set YNAB_API_TOKEN=123 WEBHOOK_URL=https://mydomain.com/ynab-webhook-receive

Deploying

git push heroku master
heroku scale app=1

Environment Variables

• YNAB_API_TOKEN - The YNAB API access token. (required)
• WEBHOOK_URL - The URL to post changes to. (required)
• BUDGET_ID - The YNAB budget id to monitor. (default: "last-used")
• REDIS_URL - The Redis server URL to connect to Redis. (default: "redis://localhost")