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How can I get the logo for an "Item" from the Plaid api?

I looked over the API documentation and I didn't see anything about how to get logos, but plaid clearly has them as they appear in the link app. Is there any way that I can also get access to those logo as part of the API or through another mechanism using an "Item" id?

Solution

  • While not documented at the time of this writing, it apparently can be done by adding an options parameter to a institution request with the value of {"include_display_data": true}. With the node API using the getInstitutionById method and Vangaurd it looks like this.

    client.getInstitutionById('ins_108768', {include_display_data: true} (err, result) => {
 // Handle err
 const logo = result.institution.logo;
});

    The value of logo will either be null or a base64 encoded string containing the binary data of the logo.