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Huginn, an Open Source IFTTT / Yahoo Pipes

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Re: Huginn, an Open Source IFTTT / Yahoo Pipes

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Interesting project. Were you aware there's also an unrelated project called Hugin[1]? [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugin_(software)

Nope, I wasn't. :) Do you think I should change the name?

FWIW at first I thought this thread was about Hugin.

Re: Huginn, an Open Source IFTTT / Yahoo Pipes

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This is nicely done - not just the idea and code, but the documentation and examples. Very nice, I look forward to using this, thank you for sharing it!

Thank you for your kind words. I think good documentation is very important. I will also be adding a screencast that explains how to use the UI.

Re: Huginn, an Open Source IFTTT / Yahoo Pipes

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This is great! Since it allows combining and parsing RSS and XML feeds - do you think it could be used to build a personalized RSS / Google Reader replacement? Just a thought.

Well, that's very hot right now. :)

Yes, actually, I use it to scrape a couple of RSS feeds myself since I couldn't be bothered to use a reader when I had this.

Re: Huginn, an Open Source IFTTT / Yahoo Pipes

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This has been my side project for the last few months. I'm very interested in your feedback!

I've been building something similar in Erlang/Elixir (OTP's a very good match for an event-driven system which connects a series of inputs to outputs), but never quite managed to get it integrated beyond a few minor inputs/outputs (the fact Erlang is less popular makes finding decent OAuth libraries difficult, for instance). The web interface you've made in particular is impressive; so far my "pipes" are just more s…

Seeing a Haskell project on github (https://github.com/frio/ifrit) that sounds similar under your handle- post the Elixir one! Would love to see some Elixir code in such great project area, whatever the state!!

Re: Huginn, an Open Source IFTTT / Yahoo Pipes

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Really cool! Did you consider using phantomjs thru capybara in order to use webkit to interact with javascript websites?

I looked into letting you write your Agents in sandboxed JS, but didn't end up going very far down that path. If you'd like to add a PhantomJS Agent, that'd be slick.

Re: Huginn, an Open Source IFTTT / Yahoo Pipes

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Really cool! Did you consider using phantomjs thru capybara in order to use webkit to interact with javascript websites?

I looked into letting you write your Agents in sandboxed JS, but didn't end up going very far down that path. If you'd like to add a PhantomJS Agent, that'd be slick.

I'll have a look ;-)
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