It can import directly from some banks maybe, but certainly not my bank. I haven't had any success importing to GnuCash from _any_ bank I do business with.

There is also the plaid api to gnucash [1], which should work with a lot more banks. Personally, I have not used any of these. My banks allow csv downloads, which works well enough for me. I wouldn't give my data to a 3rd party in any case.

[1] https://github.com/ebridges/plaid2qif

Every bank I've ever used has had functionality to do csv exports (or xlsx, for which I have a one-liner to convert to csv), which can trivially be imported into gnucash.

At least in the UK/EU, it seems to be a common feature.

That's true, I mean the automatic direct import though.

I wonder if there is a nice local browser automation tool one can use to do the download of the csv files directly from the bank.

2-factor authentication and session expiry makes it a pain in the neck

I used to have this problem, but then I found most banks offer free export to some file format - even those that charge for SW integration. You just have to dig around the site to find the feature.

To be precise, the wonderful aqbanking is doing the job for gnucash. I do not see why paisa could not use aqbanking as well