Close My Bank Account

An AI-powered database of bank account closure methods and their success rates, compiled from community-reported data on Doctor of Credit, updated daily. See an issue? Report it here.

Visit the site itself here.

Why?

Banks often offer sign-up bonuses for opening an account. Some people like to sign up for dozens of accounts and rake in the cash from all the sign-up bonuses. For these people, finding how to close an account quickly can be a legitimate time saver.

The leading source of how to close bank accounts is this Doctor Of Credit thread, but since it's manually updated, it often falls out of date.

Structure

• scrape/ - Python scripts for scraping and processing bank closure data. This uses Gemini 2.5 Flash to convert unstructured comment data into structured data that the frontend consumes
• frontend/ - SvelteKit web application - I vibe coded this. My intention was to learn Svelte, but the site was so simple that it was basically one-shotted

Setup

Prerequisites

• Node.js, npm
• Python, uv

Frontend Setup

cd frontend
npm install
npm run dev

Scraper Setup

Create a .env file in the scrape/ directory:

GEMINI_API_KEY=your_api_key_here

cd scrape
uv pip install -e .

Usage

Running the Data Pipeline

1. Scrape comments from Doctor of Credit:

   cd scrape
   python scrape.py
   

   This creates/updates comments.jsonl with the latest comments.

2. Extract structured data using AI:

   python extract_data.py
   

   This processes comments and generates comments_extracted.jsonl and by_bank.json.

3. Deploy the frontend:

   cd frontend
   npm run deploy
   

   This builds and deploys the site to GitHub Pages.

License

MIT