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What is Huginn?

Huginn is a system for building agents that perform automated tasks for you online. They can read the web, watch for events, and take actions on your behalf. Huginn’s Agents create and consume events, propagating them along a directed graph. Think of it as a hackable version of IFTTT or Zapier on your own server. You always know who has your data. You do.

Here are some of the things that you can do with Huginn:

Track the weather and get an email when it’s going to rain (or snow) tomorrow (“Don’t forget your umbrella!”)List terms that you care about and receive email when their occurrence on Twitter changes. (For example, want to know when something interesting has happened in the world of Machine Learning? Huginn will watch the term “machine learning” on Twitter and tell you when there is a spike in discussion.)
Watch for air travel or shopping dealsFollow your project names on Twitter and get updates when people mention them
Scrape websites and receive email when they changeConnect to Adioso, HipChat, Basecamp, Growl, FTP, IMAP, Jabber, JIRA, MQTT, nextbus, Pushbullet , Pushover, RSS, Bash, Slack, StubHub, translation APIs, Twilio, Twitter, Wunderground, and Weibo, to name a few.Send digest email with things that you care about at specific times during the day
Track counts of high frequency events and send an SMS within moments when they spike, such as the term “san francisco” emergency “
Send and receive WebHooks
• Run custom JavaScript or CoffeeScript functions
• Track your location over time

Create Amazon Mechanical Turk workflows as the inputs, or outputs, of agents (the Amazon Turk Agent is called the ” HumanTaskAgent “). For example: “Once a day, ask 5 people for a funny cat photo; send the results to 5 more people to be rated; send the top-rated photo to 5 people for a funny caption; send to 5 final people to rate for funniest caption; finally, post the best captioned photo on my blog. “

Join us in ourGitter roomto discuss the project.

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Want to help with Huginn? All contributions are encouraged! You could make UI improvements,add new Agents, writedocumentation and tutorials

, or try tacklingissues tagged with # help-wanted. Please fork, add specs, and send pull requests!

Really want a fix or feature? Want to solve some community issues and earn some extra coffee money? Take a look at thecurrent bounties on Bountysource.

Have an awesome idea but not feeling quite up to contributing yet? Head over to ourOfficial ‘suggest an agent ‘threadand tell us!

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Please checkout theHuginn Introductory Screencast!

And now, some example screenshots. Below them are instructions to get you started.

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The quickest and easiest way to check out Huginn is to use the official Docker image. Have a look at the documentation.

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If you just want to play around, you can simply fork this repository, then perform the following steps:

Rungit remote add upstream https://github.com/huginn/huginn.git to add the main repository as a remote for your fork.
Copy. env.example (to) . env (cp .env.example .env and edit (********************************************************. env (**********************************************************, at least updating the APP_SECRET_TOKEN variable .
Make sure that you have MySQL or PostgreSQL installed. (On a Mac, the easiest way is withHomebrew. If you’re going to use PostgreSQL, you’ll need to prepend all commands below with (DATABASE_ADAPTER=postgresql) *******************************************************. Run

********************************** (bundle) ******************************************************* to install dependencies

Run

********************************** (bundle exec rake db: create, (bundle exec rake db: migrate****************************, and then bundle exec rake db: seedto create a development database with some example Agents.

Run

********************************** (bundle exec foreman start) , visit (http: // localhost:******************************************************************************************************************************** /, and login with the username of (admin) ******************************************************** and the password of (password) ****************************************************

Setup some Agents!Read the (wikifor usage examples and to get started making new Agents. (************************** periodically run

********************************** (git fetch upstream) and thengit checkout master && git merge upstream / masterto merge in the newest version of Huginn.

. If you’d like to send real email via SMTP when playing with Huginn locally, set SEND_EMAIL_IN_DEVELOPMENT (to) **************************************************** (true) ********************************************************** (in your) . envfile.

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All agents have specs! And there’s also acceptance tests that simulate running Huginn in a headless browser.

Install PhantomJS 2.1.1 or greater:
Using Node Package Manager: npm install phantomjs
UsingHomebrewon OSX (brew install phantomjs) ********************************************************

Run all specs with************************************ (bundle exec rspec)

• Run a specific spec withbundle exec rspec path / to / specific / test_spec.rb************
  Read more about rspec for rails

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  Huginn Agents can now be written as external gems and be added to your Huginn installation with the (ADDITIONAL_GEMS) ************************************************ environment variable. See the (Additional Agent gems) ******************************************************** (section of) . env.example

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  If you’d like to write your own Huginn Agent Gem, please see huginn_agent

  Our general intention is to encourage complex and specific Agents to be written as Gems, while continuing to add new general-purpose Agents to the core Huginn repository.

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  Deployment

  Please see the Huginn Wikifor detailed deployment strategies for different providers.

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  Try Huginn on Heroku:(Takes a few minutes to setup. Read the documentationwhile you are waiting and be sure to click ‘View it’ after launch!)

  Huginn launches on the free version of Heroku (with significant limitations) . For non-experimental use, we strongly recommend Heroku’s 1GB paid plan or our Docker container.

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  Try Huginn on OpenShift Online (v3): oc new-app -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/huginn/huginn/master/openshift/templates/ huginn-mysql.json (or) ******************************************************** oc new-app -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/huginn/huginn/master/openshift/templates /huginn-postgresql.json(*********************************************************. You can also use the web console to import either json file by going to “Add to Project” ->”Import YAML / JSON”.

  If you are on the Starter plan, make sure to follow the (guide) to remove any existing application.

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  Manual installation on any server

  Have a look at the the installation guide.

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  See (private development instructions) on the wiki.

  

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  In order to use the WeatherAgent you need an API key with Wunderground. Signup for one and then change the value of (api_key: your-key) in your seeded WeatherAgent. **********

  Note, Wunderground no longer offers free API keys. You can still use the WeatherAgent by setting the service key to darksky, and getting anAPI key from DarkSky.

  

  We assume your deployment will run over SSL. This is a very good idea! However, if you wish to turn this off, you’ll probably need to edit config / initializers / devise.rb and modify the line containingconfig.rememberable_options={: secure=>true} (**********************************************************. You will also need to edit (config / environments / production.rb) ****************************************************** and modify the value of (config.force_ssl) . ********

  License

  Huginn is provided under the MIT License.

  Huginn was originally created by @ cantinoin 3000. Since then, many people dedicated contributions have made it what it is today.

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