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Available in: Desktop app · Self-hosted  |  Reach: 🇬🇧 Starling accounts  |  Cost: free from Starling; a paid AI2Fin plan

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What it is

Starling publishes its own API. You link your Starling account to a Starling Developers account once, create a personal access token with read permissions, and AI2Fin reads with it. No aggregator.

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Connect

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Create a token at Starling Developers

developer.starlingbank.com → link your account → Personal access → create a token and tick account:read, transaction:read and balance:read.
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Paste into AI2Fin

Connectors → Starling → paste → Connect.
A token without transaction:read connects successfully and then reads nothing. If you see accounts but no transactions, that scope is the first thing to check.

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What syncs

Accounts, balances and settled transactions; pending card payments arrive once they settle. First sync reads ~13 months; then every 15 minutes. Starling personal access tokens do not expire, so the feed keeps working until you revoke it.

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Why desktop only

Starling’s developer agreement is understood to restrict personal access tokens to the holder’s own account and use, with an approved-partner route for anything serving third parties. On your own machine that condition is met. A self-hosted instance holding a partner agreement can enable it with BYO_PERSONAL_TOKENS_HOSTED=true.

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Revoking

Delete the token in the Starling Developers portal. Disconnecting in AI2Fin keeps the transactions you already have.