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

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Post by janober »

mcbits wrote: post #46
janober wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, very interesting indeed! Either there is a big conspiracy to uncover or said CEO reads HN and if something is number 1 and is related to his product he pays close attention. We will maybe never find out the truth...

From your defensive tone it sounds like you think I was talking about you, but I really wasn't. It's a phenomenon I've observed here and on Reddit and elsewhere for many years. And it seems like a perfect fit for a tool such as yours, is it not?

Very sorry! As I was the only "CEO" in here which product got criticized I thought it must have been me ;-)

Yes would actually be perfect for it, but never had the time to set something like that up. Maybe someday in the future. For now, I only have a simple Google Alert set and regularly check HN and Google Analytics which is a good indicator when it got mentioned somewhere.

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

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Post by toomuchtodo »

janober wrote: post #33
agentdrtran wrote: post #29

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This is nowhere near as robust as Zapier and has significant limitations.

n8n does also have way fewer integrations. About the "robust" part. A startup I know had a lot of issues with Zapier and switched to n8n and are quite happy as they did not have any issues since. I am sure you are right and you did your research but would love to hear what exactly you are referring to as it will help me to improve n8n. The same with the limitations. Anything specific?

Have you considered generating integrations pragmatically using OpenAPI?

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

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Post by j1elo »

I've seen the word "rake", so I guess... is this written in Ruby? If so, how's the performance?

My home server is pretty minimal and lightweight: a Raspberry Pi. Do you think it will run it fine? (I'm gonna want to try this anyway, didn't know about it until now and it looks amazing!)

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

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Post by traspler »

robk wrote: post #39
traspler wrote: post #23

I have been running huginn on my home server for a while. I've mainly used it to filter RSS feeds and then generate new feeds with the filtered items. Another use-case for me is ingesting webcomic RSS feeds (or scrape a page) and post the comics to a private Telegram channel. Once I also had an agent scraping a page and notifying me if something changed (realestate listing). I have tried a couple alternatives, e.g. n…

Yeah I just use the Javascript agent for v complex stuff like this.

Oh, how could I have missed the JS Agent... thanks a lot for the hint! But it looks like it's not node, so no npm modules and other node APIs.

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

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Post by tectonic »

wpietri wrote: post #47
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…

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…

Thanks, I'm glad someone appreciated it! :)

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

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Post by tectonic »

j1elo wrote: post #53

I've seen the word "rake", so I guess... is this written in Ruby? If so, how's the performance? My home server is pretty minimal and lightweight: a Raspberry Pi. Do you think it will run it fine? (I'm gonna want to try this anyway, didn't know about it until now and it looks amazing!)

Performance is good, memory requirements could be lower though. It should run fine with 1GB of RAM, possibly less.

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

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Post by tectonic »

PatrolX wrote: post #21
PopeDotNinja wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Yes, and it's running thousands of requests and posts / minute on AWS. But you don't even need to put it in the cloud, it runs perfectly at home on an old box running Ubuntu.

That's awesome that it's working so well for you :)

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

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Post by gotts »

bitshift wrote: post #45

There is also ActiveWorkflow[1], which targets business users and let's you write custom agents in any programming language[2]. 1. https://github.com/automaticmode/active_workflow 2. https://github.com/automaticmode/active_workflow/blob/master...

added to bookmarks. Thanks for sharing! It's always good to have alternatives

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

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Post by tectonic »

bitshift wrote: post #45

There is also ActiveWorkflow[1], which targets business users and let's you write custom agents in any programming language[2]. 1. https://github.com/automaticmode/active_workflow 2. https://github.com/automaticmode/active_workflow/blob/master...

Huh, I did not know about this fork of Huginn.
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