huginn
by huginn
Huginn is a self-hosted system for building agents that watch the web, feeds, email and webhooks, then act on what they find. It is for automating routine online tasks, such as change alerts, digests and posting, while keeping your data on your own server.
- Stars
- 50.2k +6 a day
- Licence
- MIT
- Runs on
- A small server
- Setup
- Moderate
- Language
- Ruby
- Age
- 4979 days
What you can do with it
- Scrape websites and get an email when a page changes
- Watch RSS feeds, mailboxes or webhooks and send digests or Slack and Telegram messages
- Publish your own feeds or JSON endpoints from events your agents collect
Could replace
- Zapier
- IFTTT
Zapier Professional starts at $19.99 a month (billed annually, entry tier; third-party sources, check zapier.com; source, checked 2026-10-26)
Our suggestion based on what it does, not a feature-by-feature comparison.
Make money with it
Build and host custom monitoring and alert setups, such as deal trackers or content digests, for small clients on a monthly fee.
An idea, not financial advice. Check the licence before charging for anything built on it.
Ways a business could use it
- Monitor competitor pages, prices or supplier stock and get alerted by email, replacing paid monitoring subscriptions
- Automate routine reporting, such as daily digests or posts to team chat, without paying per-task automation fees
Can you use it commercially?
Free to use, change and sell, including in paid products. Keep the copyright notice.
Not legal advice. Read the project's licence file before building a product on it.
Getting it running
Run the official Docker image with one command to try it, or use the provided Docker Compose files with MySQL or PostgreSQL for production.
Follow the official instructions in the project README.
Things to check
- Web scraping features may breach some sites' terms of service
- Some integrations (Twilio, OpenAI-compatible APIs, social networks) need paid or separate API keys
- Needs a database and an always-on background worker, so it takes some server know-how
Checked 27 Oct 2026. Summary drafted by AI from the project's README.
