huginn

Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf. Your agents are standing by!

⭐ 49,224 stars on GitHub · 🍴 4,253 forks · 📜 License: mit · 💻 Language: Ruby

What is huginn?

If you want Zapier-style automation without handing every trigger, webhook, and API token to a SaaS platform, Huginn is one of the strongest self-hosted options. Its differentiator is the “agent” model: small workers that generate, transform, and consume events in a directed workflow you fully control.

Main components

• Agent-based automation engine for monitoring websites, feeds, APIs, email, social platforms, and custom data sources.
• Event pipeline model where agents pass structured events through a graph of triggers, filters, actions, and notifications.
• Web scraping and change detection for pages, prices, travel deals, mentions, and other external signals.
• Built-in integrations for RSS, IMAP, FTP, Slack, JIRA, MQTT, Pushbullet, Pushover, Twilio, Twitter/X-style monitoring, webhooks, and more.
• Scheduled digests, email alerts, SMS notifications, and spike detection for high-frequency events.
• Custom JavaScript and Bash agents for extending workflows when built-in integrations are not enough.

Clear use cases

• Build a private IFTTT/Zapier replacement for personal or team automation on your own infrastructure.
• Monitor competitor pages, product prices, job postings, release notes, or documentation changes and get notified when something moves.
• Track brand, project, or keyword mentions and route spikes or important matches into Slack, email, or SMS.
• Aggregate RSS feeds, API responses, and scraped web content into scheduled digest emails.
• Receive and send webhooks between internal tools without relying on a third-party automation broker.
• Create ops-style alerting for niche signals, such as sudden keyword spikes, weather changes, transit updates, or external service activity.

The biggest strength is hackable, self-hosted event automation — Huginn gives you the primitives to build workflows that commercial automation tools often block behind pricing tiers, rate limits, or fixed connector behavior. Compared with Zapier or IFTTT, it is less polished and requires more sysadmin comfort, but you gain data ownership, flexible logic, and the ability to wire together weird internal or public signals without asking a vendor for a new integration.

Best for developers, sysadmins, and technical teams who want private, programmable automation for monitoring, scraping, notifications, and webhook-driven workflows.

Topics: the project is tagged with popular topics:

• 🏷️ agent
• 🏷️ automation
• 🏷️ feed
• 🏷️ feedgenerator
• 🏷️ huginn
• 🏷️ monitoring
• 🏷️ notifications
• 🏷️ rss
• 🏷️ scraper
• 🏷️ twitter

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Quick install

See the README for detailed install instructions. Most projects support Docker — if the repo has a Dockerfile, use:

git clone https://github.com/huginn/huginn.git
cd huginn
docker build -t huginn .
docker run -d -p 8080:8080 huginn

Minimum system requirements

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Resources

• 🔗 GitHub: huginn/huginn
• 📚 Official docs: see README in the repo
• 💬 Community: GitHub Issues + Discussions

Article compiled from GitHub data on 05/05/2026. Star/fork counts may have changed — see live numbers via the GitHub link.