Unattended AggCat API access

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I'd like to confirm my reading of the documentation for AggCat:

Real-time API access with categorization requires a user token which expires in one hour
If we want to refresh a customer's data behind the scenes, as an unattended process, we can use the Batch Data APIs?

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 09 '13 at 23:36

Mike,
You can refresh the access tokens anytime you want, but they are always only an hour long.

Batch will update the account transactions on a nightly basis and will generate a file that you can consume to capture transactions. To download those files you will make use of the Batch API calls which also utilize the user token. You can at anytime perform a real-time refresh on an account to capture up-to-date transaction information. If you wish to have categorization that information will be available in both the batch file as well as the getTransactions API call.

regards,

Ben

Thanks a lot, Ben! This is really useful info. Can't wait to try out the API, once somebody gives me access to it, that is :) — Mike Sickler, Jan 22 '13 at 17:16

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 19 '14 at 14:50

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You can refresh the access tokens anytime you want, but they are always only an hour long.

Batch is only if you want to get categorization. Nothing to do with unattended access specifically.

edited Oct 19 '14 at 14:50

answered Dec 22 '12 at 23:55

Jarred Keneally

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