Huginn is a powerful and versatile open-source system for building agents that automate online tasks. It allows users to create agents that can read the web, watch for specific events, and take actions on their behalf. Think of it as a self-hosted, hackable alternative to IFTTT or Zapier.
Key features of Huginn include:
- Event-driven automation: Agents create and consume events, propagating them along a directed graph to automate complex workflows.
- Web scraping: Agents can scrape websites and trigger actions based on changes in content.
- API integration: Huginn supports connections to various services, including Adioso, HipChat, FTP, IMAP, Jabber, JIRA, MQTT, Pushbullet, Pushover, RSS, Bash, Slack, StubHub, translation APIs, Twilio, Twitter, and Weibo.
- Custom scripting: Users can run custom JavaScript or CoffeeScript functions within agents.
- Location tracking: Agents can track your location over time.
- Amazon Mechanical Turk integration: Create workflows that incorporate human tasks.
- Agent gems: Extend Huginn's capabilities by writing custom agents as external gems.
Use cases for Huginn include:
- Weather tracking and alerts
- Social media monitoring
- Price tracking
- Website change detection
- Data aggregation and digest emails
- Real-time event monitoring and SMS alerts
- WebHook integration
