Customer story/Okra

How Okra uses Browserless to power bank scraping inside its financial widget

Africa's open-finance operating system runs every browser-based bank integration on Browserless.

JUNE 30, 2022

Customer
Okra · Lagos, Nigeria
Industry
Fintech
Use case
Bank scraping
Deployment
Cloud
Customer since
2022
Stack
Puppeteer
Browserless products
Browserless Cloud

Okra, whose mission is to digitize financial services for Africa, is an operating system for financial service platforms of all sizes, from startups to multinational banks who use Okra to build their digital financial platforms and services.

Okra helps businesses in different ways. With Okra, financial firms can:

  • Build full digital banking services to scale.
  • Match customers with sustainable loans in real-time and lower default rates.
  • Build tailored finance management experiences for each user with their financial information.
  • Leverage bank-to-bank payments to boost conversions and increase revenue.

Okra connects to a huge amount of external tools. For smooth work, they need to automate those workflows.

Fara Ashiru Jituboh, Co-Founder and CEO at Okra, shared a few quick thoughts on how Okra has implemented Browserless in their business.

What problems does Browserless solve for Okra?

When a customer launches the Okra widget in their favorite app we concurrently launch a Browserless browser in case the user will use a bank that is integrated via scrapers, and return a URL. Once the customer chooses their bank on the Okra widget we use the URL to connect and launch the bank in a tab. We then conclude the scraping process and format and save the data.

What were you doing before Browserless?

Previously, we were doing this on our own servers.

Why did Okra choose Browserless for automation?

Previously Okra implemented the workflow on their servers. With Browserless they are able to re-use browsers, so they could increase speeds dramatically.

Previously, we were doing this on our own servers. With Browserless we're able to re-use browsers, so we could increase speeds dramatically.

Fara Ashiru Jituboh · Co-Founder & CEO · Okra

Want the same outcome?

Running browser-based integrations for banks, payroll systems, or any portal that doesn't have an API? Browserless gives you concurrent, ready-to-use browsers without operating the fleet yourself.

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