Huginn
MIT self-hosted agents that watch the web and act
Comms / Notifications · OSS/MIT · 50.1k
Reviewed 2026-10-18 · last push 2026-10-18 · repo checked 2026-10-19
What's Good
MIT (huginn/huginn), release v2026.10.14 (2026-10-13), around since 2013 and still actively maintained. Agents scrape sites, watch RSS feeds, IMAP mailboxes, webhooks and MQTT topics, then send emails or messages or call APIs. Your data stays on your server. ★~50.1k.
The Catch
These are rule-based agents, not LLM agents. It is a Rails app with a dated UI, and building multi-step flows takes some JSON configuration. n8n or Node-RED feel more modern for visual workflows.
Verdict
Still the classic for self-hosted web watching and alerting.
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