Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf

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Post by daolf » Thu, Dec 12, 2019, 3:31 PM UTC

Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf
github.com

Re: Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf

#2

Post by david_draco » Thu, Dec 12, 2019, 3:51 PM UTC

"Once a day, ask 5 people for a funny cat photo; send the results to 5 more people to be rated; send the top-rated photo to 5 people for a funny caption; send to 5 final people to rate for funniest caption; finally, post the best captioned photo on my blog."

I'm still laughing :) wth! (My fear is that this might actually be sustainable with ads.)

Re: Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf

#3

Post by penagwin » Thu, Dec 12, 2019, 3:57 PM UTC

Also checkout Node Red [0], it's fairly popular in the automation space. It's rather sparse by default, but after adding in some community nodes (or making some yourself) it's pretty useful.

https://nodered.org/

Re: Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf

#4

Post by rvz » Thu, Dec 12, 2019, 4:02 PM UTC

For those using expensive/advanced connectors like Zapier, Tray.io, etc. I find that https://n8n.io serves as a far welcoming open-source alternative that is worth looking at.

Re: Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf

#5

Post by PatrolX » Thu, Dec 12, 2019, 4:09 PM UTC

Not just an alternative though.

- Self-hosted

- Unlimited and FREE vs $699 / month

- Create your own agents / integrations

- Process data through shell scripts or JavaScript

- Better filtering

- Liquid templating

- Completely private

I save thousands of dollars by using Huginn.

It's incredibly powerful and quite frankly I don't trust Zapier with my data and visibility of what I'm doing because there are commercial implications.

Run it in the cloud on AWS or on an old box at home.

It's very reliable.

Re: Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf

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Post by omarhaneef » Thu, Dec 12, 2019, 4:09 PM UTC

david_draco wrote: post #2

"Once a day, ask 5 people for a funny cat photo; send the results to 5 more people to be rated; send the top-rated photo to 5 people for a funny caption; send to 5 final people to rate for funniest caption; finally, post the best captioned photo on my blog." I'm still laughing :) wth! (My fear is that this might actually be sustainable with ads.)

This is basically the plan of The New Yorker, but with (probably) 1000s of people.

Re: Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf

#7

Post by PatrolX » Thu, Dec 12, 2019, 4:15 PM UTC

rvz wrote: post #4

For those using expensive/advanced connectors like Zapier, Tray.io, etc. I find that https://n8n.io serves as a far welcoming open-source alternative that is worth looking at.

Nowhere near as flexible and powerful as Huginn.

Re: Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Dec 12, 2019, 4:17 PM UTC

PatrolX wrote: post #7

rvz wrote: post #4

For those using expensive/advanced connectors like Zapier, Tray.io, etc. I find that https://n8n.io serves as a far welcoming open-source alternative that is worth looking at.

Nowhere near as flexible and powerful as Huginn.

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Re: Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf

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Post by jaequery » Thu, Dec 12, 2019, 4:18 PM UTC

This looks worth checking out but I’d love to see a Lambda version of it

Re: Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf

#10

Post by minimaxir » Thu, Dec 12, 2019, 4:21 PM UTC

For a more business-friendly-but-still-FOSS approach to task automation between services, see also Apache Airflow: https://airflow.apache.org

Airflow has been a skill that many companies ask for (especially data engineering), but surprisingly doesn't have many articles written about it.