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I recently got interested in analyzing and tracking my monthly spending patterns. There are tools out there such as <a href="https://www.mint.com/" target="_blank">Mint</a> which help you do just that. However I was more interested in having access to historical raw credit card transaction data for analysis. Furthermore, I found that services like <a href="https://www.mint.com/" target="_blank">Mint</a> did not do a very good job of categorizing transactions accurately. For example, If I would buy something on Amazon or Google, the charge would end up being bucketed into a general <em>Shopping </em>category. This was not very useful if I was trying to figure out how much I was spending per month on purchases from Amazon for example.