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## ABOUT
The API aims to provide a read only access to bank transaction in a simple and consistent structure by abstracting away the peculiarities of each banking system.
The Open Bank Project is an open source API for banks that enables account holders to interact with their transaction data using a wider range of applications and services.
The OBP API supports transparency options (enabling account holders to share configurable views of their transaction data with trusted individuals and even the publi,
data blurring (to preserve sensitive information) and data enrichment (enabling users to add tags, comments and images to transactions).
The API aims also to facilitate the data sharing with users, with several level of details in a secure way and to enhance the raw transactions with some metadata : comments, tags, pictures etc.
Thus, the OBP API aims to abstract away the peculiarities of each core banking system so that a wide range of apps can read (and one day write) transactions to many banks.
The API provides also OAuth 1.0 authentication.
The API provides OAuth 1.0 authentication.
## Document
## DOCUMENTATION
Please refer to the [wiki](https://github.com/OpenBankProject/OBP-API/wiki) to see the API specification.
## STATUS
For the moment some ready only API calls are implemented, by in the future there will be write API calls to post metadata like : comments, pictures, etc.
Currently most of the read only API calls are implemented.
## LICENSE
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mvn jetty:run
You need to install MongoDB and create an empty database called "OBP006".
You need to install MongoDB and create an empty database called "OBP006".