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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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Oh nice! Can I use it (create custom agents) if I dont know any ruby?

Also I will need to intall ruby on my debian personal server.. which I'd rather avoid (I already have there python, php, perl..), but having custom IFTTT+pipes is just too tempting :)

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?

Regardless of the hugin conflict, it'd be nice not to have to spell the name out to people when recommending this. Maybe even something ambitious like just calling it "Tubes"? (I'm not aware of anything else with that name.)

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?

I vote yes. It's one consonant different from an existing application/thing. Having said that I'm terrible with naming things and can't offer any alternatives.

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.

Thanks, that is what I was thinking of doing. Maybe even set up a list of the RSS feeds on a simple text / HTML page; then use Huginn to pull the entire list from the URL, combine, sort, remove duplicates and output the HTML. Anytime you wanted to change the list of feeds, you can just edit the HTML page.

Re: Huginn, an Open Source IFTTT / Yahoo Pipes

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Wow, that's one hell of a side project. Looks really awesome. Do you have plans on having a hosted version people can use? I love the idea of hosted open source projects which allow you to easily export your data if you decide later to run it yourself.

Thanks! I'd like to make a version that's trivial to deploy to Heroku, or perhaps a pre-build micro EC2 image? I'm not sure I want to host more than a demo version because it could be used for scraping. The core idea is that this is something that you run yourself because you care about who has your data.

Cool. FWIW, I'd use a micro image (or instructions for installing on top of a standard Ubuntu 12.10 image) if it was available.

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?

Ah just saw the reason for the name on github. I thought you chose it out of the blue. What about a line from Anchorman: "Great Odin's Raven!" or something to that effect :P

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?

Eh, I had never heard of Hugin before.

Don't try Muninn, it's already taken for something sorta similar: http://code.google.com/p/muninn/

Re: Huginn, an Open Source IFTTT / Yahoo Pipes

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Wow, that's one hell of a side project. Looks really awesome. Do you have plans on having a hosted version people can use? I love the idea of hosted open source projects which allow you to easily export your data if you decide later to run it yourself.

Thanks! I'd like to make a version that's trivial to deploy to Heroku, or perhaps a pre-build micro EC2 image? I'm not sure I want to host more than a demo version because it could be used for scraping. The core idea is that this is something that you run yourself because you care about who has your data.

A Heroku or EC2 build would be amazing

Hosted would also be good though, I think there are a whole class of people who don't care all that much who has access to their data so long as they could self host it (or have someone else host it for them) if the service ever stopped running.

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?

That's a good question. Ultimately, it all comes down to you, but as mentioned by the other commenters, the double ending 'n' (which is uncommon in English, as far as I know) and the fact that there's an established OSS project with a very similar name would make sure that people don't talk about your project as the "Hugin with two n's" or the "Huginn that's not the photography thing." Google will also helpfully redirect queries for "huginn download" to the other project[3], though that's probably because your project doesn't have many links to it yet.

That being said, they're not in a related area, so I doubt anyone would be excessively confused between both, as opposed to say, Go[1] and Go![2].

What I'd do, personally, is try to find another name and only keep the current project name if I can't find a better one that's not already taken. It makes it easier to rank well on Google and is less likely that someone will apt-get the wrong project.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(programming_language) [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go!_(programming_language) [3] https://www.google.com/search?q=huginn+download

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