Soknedal Sparebank API Access & Open Banking Data

Reaching your Soknedal Sparebank accounts programmatically usually means chasing PSD2 certificates and eIDAS paperwork. open-banking.io removes that entirely. It is a certificate-free bridge to 2,600+ European banks where your financial data is encrypted with a key that never leaves your device — the platform only ever holds your public key, so it can store your data but never read it.

Soknedal Sparebank supports both business and personal account types, and access consent lasts up to 180 days before you renew it. No BIC is required to get started — you simply pick the bank inside your dashboard.

How to connect Soknedal Sparebank

Connecting happens entirely in the open-banking.io dashboard — there is no API call, code, or key involved in this step:

  1. Sign up for an open-banking.io account.
  2. Set your encryption passphrase. Your key pair is generated locally on your own device; the passphrase protects the private key only you hold.
  3. Pick Soknedal Sparebank in the dashboard and choose the account type — business or personal.
  4. Approve access on Soknedal Sparebank's own login. You are redirected to the bank's secure consent screen to authorise the connection (standard PSD2 consent), then returned to your dashboard.
  5. Your accounts sync in. Balances and transactions appear in the dashboard, ready to view or export.

Access your data

Reading the data programmatically is an optional developer step that comes after you have connected. On the Developers page, create an API key and export a credentials.json — this bundles your API key together with your private decryption key. From there you can use the CLI (openbanking accounts, openbanking transactions, openbanking sync), an SDK, or the REST API. Every request carries the X-Api-Key header, and each response is decrypted locally with your own key. Without that private key an API response is nothing but ciphertext — the servers cannot help anyone read it.

All of this runs for roughly EUR 3/month, with no certificate authority, no eIDAS onboarding, and no shared secrets.

Do I need a developer account to connect?

No. Connecting Soknedal Sparebank is done in the dashboard by approving access on the bank's login. API keys are only for reading data afterwards.

Can open-banking.io see my Soknedal Sparebank transactions?

No. The service is zero-knowledge: it stores only your public key, so data is decrypted exclusively on your device.

Up to 180 days for Soknedal Sparebank, after which you re-approve access to keep syncing.

Start at open-banking.io.