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Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf

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

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Post by thisisbrians »

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…

What funny timing! I'm a fellow space-nerd and just signed up for your newsletter a couple of weeks ago — it's fabulously done! Bravo.

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

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Post by janober »

anderspitman wrote: post #97
janober wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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? ;)

haha, no would have done that even without that. It was always important to me to make that clear even though it did obviously not work exactly like intended.

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

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Post by joegaebel »

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…

Great to see you at the top of HN today tectonic! I'm at Pivotal in Sydney Australia now. Thanks again for the impromptu interview all of those years ago!

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

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Post by DailyHN »

audiometry wrote: post #104

Is there any way to implement agents in python rather than JavaScript/ruby? Looks interesting but I don’t want to invest energy in building fluency in these other scripting languages.

Not exactly.

You could write python externally (cloud functions/aws lambda) and then use huginn to call that over HTTP. This doesn't require any coding. Huginn has existing agents that you can easily configure to make HTTP requests (PostAgent and WebsiteAgent).

And, depending what you are planning to do with huginn, simply sending data from your python script to huginn using the WebhookAgent may be sufficient.

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

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Post by oskapt »

audiometry wrote: post #104

Is there any way to implement agents in python rather than JavaScript/ruby? Looks interesting but I don’t want to invest energy in building fluency in these other scripting languages.

I run Huginn in a Kubernetes cluster with most of its heavy lifting done by HTTP calls to OpenFaaS running in the same cluster. This let me write complex logic in Python but have Huginn handle the execution, triggers, filtering, and delivery of the data. Among other things I use it to scrape Twitter for interesting Kubernetes news and follow the retweets back to people who link to their own websites so that our editorial department can vet them for invitation into our writing program. Any particular author/account only appears once. It generates around 40 new candidates each day. I also use it to scrape the Chilean public alert website (onemi.cl) for alerts in my region ( forest fire, major weather), run those through the translate API and then send the English translations to my and my wife’s phones via Pushover.

These are things that I want to control and customize, and I vastly prefer running my own systems over trusting any third party.

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