Huginn

A self-hosted system of small agents that watch websites, feeds, inboxes and APIs and act on what they find, like a hackable IFTTT on your own server.

50.2k stars, 4.3k forks Ruby On GitHub since March 2013

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What is Huginn?

In Huginn you create agents that each do one job, such as fetching a page, filtering events, sending an email or posting to Slack. Agents pass events to each other along a graph, so simple pieces combine into monitors, alerts and digests. Typical uses from the README: get an email when a page changes, track prices, watch RSS feeds, IMAP mailboxes or MQTT topics, and send a daily summary. It is a Ruby on Rails app with a MySQL or PostgreSQL database.

Good fit if

  • You want personal or small-team monitoring and alerts that run on your own server.
  • You like composing small rules yourself, with JavaScript or Liquid templates where needed.
  • You value a project that has been around since 2013 and keeps your data in your hands.

Look elsewhere if

  • You want a modern visual editor and hundreds of ready SaaS integrations: n8n or Activepieces.
  • You only need to watch web pages for changes: changedetection.io is simpler to set up.

Before you adopt it

Huginn is MIT-licensed, and every feature in the repository is free. Development continues at a calm pace, and most recent commits come from a small group led by one main contributor. The interface is available in English only.

Drafted with AI from the project's README and repository data, then checked against that data on 30 October 2026. Report a correction

Huginn health: is it still maintained?

74 of 100, actively developed

  • Activity
    201 commits in the last 90 days, the latest on 26 October 2026.
    28 / 30
  • Contributors
    5 people wrote the latest 100 commits; the most active wrote 84% of them.
    10 / 20
  • Releases
    9 releases in the last 12 months; the latest, v2026.10.26, on 26 October 2026.
    18 / 20
  • Replies to issues
    Maintainers answered 59% of recent issues, with a median first reply after 4 days.
    12 / 20
  • Security practices
    OpenSSF Scorecard 6.1 of 10.
    6 / 10

Read from GitHub on 1 November 2026. How the score works

Huginn license: is it open source?

Huginn uses MIT, an open-source license approved by the OSI.

  1. March 2013First published on GitHub.
  2. TodayMIT.

How to run Huginn yourself

Docker
Dockerfile or compose file in the repository
Compose file
docker/single-process/docker-compose.yml: 4 services (mysql)
Setup effort
3 of 5, judged from the compose file
Kubernetes
No Helm chart in the repository
Desktop and mobile
No app builds in GitHub releases
Interface languages
English only

Install instructions: the README on GitHub.

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Questions about Huginn

Is Huginn open source?

Yes. Huginn is published under MIT, an OSI-approved open-source license.

Is Huginn still maintained?

Its health score is 74 of 100 (actively developed). It had 201 commits in the last 90 days, the latest on 26 October 2026, and its latest release came out on 26 October 2026.

How do I run Huginn?

You can run it with Docker. The README on GitHub has the exact steps.

What are the alternatives to Huginn?

Close alternatives in the Workflow automation category include changedetection.io, Dify, Apache Airflow.