Huginn

Key Features of Huginn

• Self-hosted automation – Run Huginn on your own server for full data ownership and privacy.
• Event-driven architecture – Agents create, consume, and propagate events along customizable workflows.
• Web monitoring – Track website changes, scrape content, and receive updates automatically.
• Social media tracking – Monitor terms or topics on platforms like Twitter and receive alerts on spikes or changes.
• Custom notifications – Get emails, SMS, or Slack messages triggered by specific events or schedules.
• Digest emails – Aggregate and send summaries of important data at set intervals.
• Service integrations – Connect with services like RSS, IMAP, FTP, WebHooks, Jabber, MQTT, Slack, Twitter, Twilio, and more.
• Custom scripting – Write JavaScript or CoffeeScript within agents for tailored behaviors.
• Location tracking – Log and act on geolocation data over time.
• Crowdsourced workflows – Use Amazon Mechanical Turk for multi-step, human-in-the-loop automation.
• Real-time alerts – Detect and respond quickly to spikes in event frequency or unusual patterns.

Discover Huginn, the open-source automation platform that puts you in control of your online tasks and data.

Imagine a digital assistant that doesn't just sit around waiting for instructions, but actively watches the web for you, looking out for things you care about, and acts on them. That's the essence of Huginn, an open-source system for building agents that automate your online life.

Huginn is like a self-hosted version of IFTTT or Zapier, but without the tradeoffs. You get full control of your data, your logic, and your privacy. Set it up on your own server, and it becomes a digital network of custom agents that read the web, monitor trends, and trigger actions based on your rules.

A Hackable Internet Sidekick

At its core, Huginn operates on a simple but powerful concept: agents create and consume events. These agents connect in a directed graph, passing data and actions downstream based on what happens upstream. It’s automation, but deeply customizable and endlessly extendable.

Here’s how you might use Huginn:

You could keep an eye on the weather forecast and get an alert when it's likely to rain tomorrow. Or maybe you're watching Twitter for mentions of a specific project or a trending topic like “machine learning.” When conversation spikes, Huginn can notify you.

It can also scan websites and alert you to changes, track airfares or sales, or compile a digest of important updates to send at just the right time. You might even use it to keep tabs on specific phrases or high-frequency terms, and get a message when something unusual is happening, say, a sudden uptick in the phrase "san francisco emergency."

What makes Huginn especially flexible is its ability to connect with a wide range of services. It plays nicely with RSS, Slack, Twitter, IMAP, FTP, WebHooks, Jabber, MQTT, and more. You can even write your own custom JavaScript or CoffeeScript functions if you want behavior that's uniquely yours.

Need something even more advanced? Huginn supports integrations with Amazon Mechanical Turk, letting you create human-powered workflows. For instance, you could set up a chain where people submit funny cat photos, others vote, captions are generated and rated, and the winner gets posted, automatically.

Own Your Automations

What sets Huginn apart is not just its power but its philosophy. You’re not outsourcing your logic or data to a third party. Everything runs on your terms, on your machine, with transparency and control. It’s automation you can trust, because you built it.

If you’re a developer, tinkerer, or just someone who wants more from your digital tools, Huginn isn’t just an option, it’s a playground.

Ready to build your first agent? Huginn’s waiting.