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huginn/huginn

Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf.

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50k stars4.3k forksLast push Aug 15, 2026 Ruby MIT

Decision brief

Built using Ruby with a focus on creating monitoring and automation agents for notifications and web scraping tasks.

Good fit when

When you require custom scripts or workflows in Ruby to automate repetitive actions like web scraping or notification handling.
For users who prefer open-source solutions under the MIT License for their agent-based automation needs.

Avoid when

When your team is not familiar with Ruby, as Huginn requires Ruby knowledge to create, deploy, or maintain it.
For projects needing integration with proprietary systems lacking Ruby compatibility.

Hosting:: self hosted - Huginn can be deployed on a variety of servers or self-hosted environments using Docker for quick setup. Alternatively, manual installation is supported on any server with Ruby and a database (MySQL/`

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Maintenance and security

Full trust report

Maintenance: Very active (3d since push); As of Aug 19, 2026
Provenance: Not a fork · Organization account; As of Aug 19, 2026
Security (OSV): No criticals; As of Jul 11, 2026

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Install

gem install huginn

RubyGems

How it fits your stack(24)

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Alternative

langflow

Huginn and Langflow are alternatives in the space of creating automated agents and workflows. Huginn focuses on building task-oriented agents for online events and services using directed graph event propagation, whereas Langflow offers a more visual approach with integration capabilities for major AI tools and enterprise features like scalability and security.

alternative

worldmonitor

Worldmonitor and huginn both provide tools for monitoring various data sources in real-time using AI agents.

alternative

MetaGPT

Huginn and MetaGPT both enable automation through agent-based systems; however, Huginn focuses on creating individual agents to monitor and act online based on user-defined events using a directed graph structure, whereas MetaGPT specializes in simulating collaboration among multiple GPT models under various roles for complex task resolution.

alternative

Integrates

firecrawl

Given that Huginn mentions using web scraping and interacting with APIs to gather data, it can integrate well with FireCrawl for scalable web scraping needs.

integrates

agents

The Multi-harness agentic plugin marketplace in Agents could integrate with Huginn as a source of agents and plugins to add functionalities to its automated tasks framework.

integrates

self-hosted-ai-starter-kit

N8n's self-hosted AI starter kit includes multiple tools that can be used to automate processes and could integrate with Huginn's agent system for monitoring and actions.

integrates

hermes-agent

The agent that grows with you

langchain

LangChain's goal of developing agent engineering parallels Huginn, where both seek to automate processes via intelligent agents.

ponytail

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Evidence and technical details

Sourced facts, taxonomy, compatibility claims, README excerpt, and machine-readable endpoints.

Overview

Huginn allows users to create automation agents for monitoring, notifications, and web scraping tasks using Ruby.

Capability facts

MCP server: No MCP server detected
Source: repo_scan · Aug 19, 2026
Languages: ruby, javascript
Source: github.language+package.json · Aug 19, 2026

README

Docker The quickest and easiest way to check out Huginn is to use the official Docker image. Have a look at the documentation. Local Installation If you just want to play around, you can simply fork this repository, then perform the following steps: Run to add the main repository...

For agents

This page has a .md twin and JSON over the API.

/tools/huginn-huginn.md GET /api/graphcanon/tools/huginn-huginn GET /api/graphcanon/graph?tool=huginn-huginn

huginn

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Install

How it fits your stack(24)

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Overview

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README

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