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

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Post by codetrotter »

minimaxir wrote: post #10

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.

The Airflow landing page that you linked to lists many integrations but when you click on those only a small subset of them are listed in the integrations section of the docs that is linked to. I guess the docs are in need of some more work.

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

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Post by outworlder »

aasasd wrote: post #77
wpietri wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm excited to check this out, but I wanted to congratulate you on a truly excellent project name. Having spent many, many hours in naming struggles, I truly appreciate the perfection. And for those unfamiliar, the (also amazingly named) historian Snori Sturluson explains: "Two ravens sit on his (Odin’s) shoulders and whisper all the news which they see and hear into his ear; they are called Huginn and Muninn. He sen…

Fittingly, Munin is a sorta-popular server monitoring tool: http://munin-monitoring.org

I actually thought the thread was about that. The Muninn/Hugginn association is engraved in my brain. I blame EVE online.

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

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Post by Cameri »

esquire_900 wrote: post #11

This, as well as related projects like n8n & node-red, is a very cool project. I always wonder what people use it for in real life though. It seems a lot of trouble (setting up, learning curve, maintaining) for an action that usually takes a couple of seconds, like checking the weather or opening twitter. Does anybody have useful workflows going on?

I have a few: - watch GoFundMe campaigns and post funding updates on Telegram - watch multiple tech blogs and post updates on Telegram - watch multiple funny blogs (xkcd, monkeyuser, lightroast, daily wtf) and post updates on Telegram - watch English idiom/word/phrase of the day feeds and post on Telegram - watch Canada's Express Entry draws and post new draws on Telegram - watch IELTS exam dates/locations/seat availability and post updates on Telegram

These have required some setup but little to no maintenance after.

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

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Post by heavyset_go »

floren wrote: post #86
heavyset_go wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A fresh Huginn container idles at ~300MB of memory without any configuration on my part. A fresh node-red container idles at 30MB.

I was unable to run the Huginn Docker container on my Pi, I assume because there are x86 binaries in it. I'm trying the manual install now...

Yeah, there's only a x86 Docker image on Docker Hub for Huginn. You could probably just build an ARM image from whatever Dockerfile the x86 version was built from.

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

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Post by tectonic »

vincvinc wrote: post #81
tectonic wrote: post #41

It's fun to wake up to find a project that I started on the top of HN! These days, I'm no longer very involved with the day-to-day of the project. Now that it's no longer a young project, here are some musings about Huginn and responses to people's comments in this thread, in no particular order. I've found that Huginn excels as a scheduled web scraper with lightweight filtering. That's what I use it for. On the othe…

Little known fact: this project is used widely by journalists who can't code (at The New York Times, among others) to do a variety of tasks, like eg. monitoring web pages like Trump's policy position, scraping press releases or filtering out very specific news alerts. see Huginn for Newsrooms: http://albertsun.github.io/huginn-newsroom-scenarios/ It's been at least as useful as Yahoo! Pipes, and endlessly more reliab…

Yes! Albert's work using Huginn at the NYTimes (and contributing some changes back) was one of the big early successes for the project.

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

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Post by ISL »

ISL wrote: post #73
ksrm wrote: post #68

Not to be confused with Hugin: http://hugin.sourceforge.net/

Agreed. It was a surprise to see Hugin get top billing on HN other than for awesome panoramic image stitching.

I see that this particular horse was already beaten in 2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5377815

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

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Post by anderspitman »

janober wrote: post #12
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.

Thanks a lot rvz for throwing it in the mix. I am the creator of n8n so just wanted to mention that it is not "OSI approved open-source" as the commons clause got attached. More information about that in the FAQ https://docs.n8n.io/#/faq?id=license

You end up a bit OSI-traumatized after the n8n launch? ;)

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

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Post by minimaxir »

codetrotter wrote: post #91
minimaxir wrote: post #10

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.

The Airflow landing page that you linked to lists many integrations but when you click on those only a small subset of them are listed in the integrations section of the docs that is linked to. I guess the docs are in need of some more work.

It's easier to look at the APIs:

https://airflow.apache.org/docs/stable/_api/airflow/operator...

https://airflow.apache.org/docs/stable/_api/airflow/contrib/...

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

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Post by vorpalhex »

PopeDotNinja wrote: post #14
PatrolX wrote: post #5

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 im…

> I save thousands of dollars by using Huginn. Does that take into account the overhead of operating Huginn?

You can deploy it as a docker image in a few minutes. If you already run a homelab of any sort (which most of HN does), it's basically free.
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