diff --git a/bin/simplefinjson b/bin/simplefinjson
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+#!/bin/bash
+# simplefinjson 1.0 - (c) Simon Michael 2025
+# Download accounts and recent transactions history from SimpleFIN, as JSON.
+#
+# Requirements:
+#  a SimpleFIN account with financial institution(s) and app connection configured
+#  GNU date
+#  jq to prettify
+
+# Insert an access token here, acquired with simplefinsetup.
+# (Or use a secrets manager, like https://bitwarden.com/help/secrets-manager-quick-start.)
+SIMPLEFIN_ACCESS_URL=''
+
+# Run GNU date, which is gdate on mac.
+date() { if hash gdate 2>/dev/null; then gdate "$@"; else date "$@"; fi }
+
+START=`date +%s -d '-30 days'`
+
+curl -sL "$SIMPLEFIN_ACCESS_URL/accounts?start-date=$START" | jq
+
+# https://www.simplefin.org/protocol.html#http-endpoints
+# https://www.simplefin.org/protocol.html#get-accounts
+# Parameter	Required	Description
+# start-date	optional	If given, transactions will be restricted to those on or after this Unix epoch timestamp.
+# end-date	optional	If given, transactions will be restricted to those before (but not on) this Unix epoch timestamp.
+# pending	optional	If pending=1 is provided, pending transactions will be included (if supported). By default, pending transaction are NOT included.
+# account	optional	If given, only return information related to the given account id. May be specified multiple times.
+# balances-only	optional	If balances-only=1 is provided, no transaction data is returned.
diff --git a/bin/simplefinjson2csv b/bin/simplefinjson2csv
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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# simplefinjson2csv 1.0 - (c) Simon Michael 2025
+
+__version__ = "1.0"
+__author__  = "Simon Michael"
+versionmsg = f"%prog {__version__}, by {__author__} 2025; part of the hledger project."
+usagemsg   = """%prog [options] [JSONFILE|-] [-]
+
+Read SimpleFIN /accounts JSON from a JSONFILE or stdin;
+write each account's transactions as date-ordered CSV,
+to separate CSV files or to stdout.
+
+Requirements:
+ python 3
+ a SimpleFIN account with financial institution(s) and app connection configured.
+
+Examples: 
+$ simplefinjson | simplefinjson2csv
+$ simplefinjson >sf.json; simplefinjson2csv sf.json -
+"""
+
+from pprint import pprint as pp
+import csv
+import datetime
+import decimal
+import json
+import optparse
+import re
+import sys
+
+def parse_options():
+    parser = optparse.OptionParser(usage=usagemsg, version=versionmsg)
+    opts, args = parser.parse_args()
+    if len(args) > 2:
+        parser.print_help()
+        sys.exit()
+    return opts, args
+
+def main():
+    opts, args = parse_options()
+    with open(args[0],'r') if len(args) > 0 and not args[0]=='-' else sys.stdin as inp:
+
+        i = json.load(inp)
+        for a in i['accounts']: #[0:1]:
+            aid = a['id']
+            aname = a['name']
+            oname = a['org']['name']
+            ts = a['transactions']
+            if len(args) < 2:
+                fname = f'sf-{aid}.csv'
+                out = open(fname,'w')
+                print(f"writing {len(ts)} transactions to {fname}")
+            else:
+                out = sys.stdout
+            w = csv.writer(out, quoting=csv.QUOTE_ALL)
+            w.writerow([
+                "date",
+                "id",
+                "amount",
+                "description",
+                "payee",
+                "memo"
+                ])
+
+            for t in reversed(a['transactions']):
+              dt = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(t['posted'])
+              # dtl = dt.astimezone()
+              w.writerow([
+                  dt.strftime('%Y-%m-%d'), # %H:%M:%S %Z'),
+                  t['id'],
+                  t['amount'],
+                  t['description'],
+                  t['payee'],
+                  t['memo']
+                  ])
+  
+if __name__ == "__main__": main()
diff --git a/bin/simplefinsetup b/bin/simplefinsetup
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+#!/usr/bin/env sh
+# Acquire an access url for SimpleFIN.
+
+# Insert a setup token here, acquired from the website, then run this script once.
+SETUP_TOKEN=''  # demo: aHR0cHM6Ly9iZXRhLWJyaWRnZS5zaW1wbGVmaW4ub3JnL3NpbXBsZWZpbi9jbGFpbS9ERU1PLXYyLTM5RTFGQThFM0Y5NjUxNTQ3REZB
+
+CLAIM_URL="$(echo "$SETUP_TOKEN" | base64 --decode)"
+export SIMPLEFIN_ACCESS_URL=$(curl -s -H "Content-Length: 0" -X POST "$CLAIM_URL")
+echo $SIMPLEFIN_ACCESS_URL