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Huginn

Agent system that watches the web and acts on events you define, for example by sending alerts.

Replaces

Paid workflow automation services, such as Zapier.

All open-source alternatives to Zapier

Difficulty

Difficulty: Medium

4 services (2 database or broker: mysql), 0 volume mounts, 1 env value to set, no elevated host access. Heuristic score 5 of 11: medium. A source checkout is needed, so the rating is at least medium.

Stack

Ruby (language), MySQL (database)

Deployment

docker_compose

Requirements

Not stated.

License

MIT (OSI-approved open source)

Read from github.com/huginn/huginn/blob/74581b0/LICENSE

Business model

Unknown

The README at the pinned commit does not state a business model, so it stays unknown.

Source: github.com/huginn/huginn/blob/74581b0/README.md, read on .

Repository

huginn/huginn

GitHub stats

Stars
50,090
Forks
4,313
Open issues and pull requests
703
Last push
2026-10-18
Latest release
v2026.10.14
Released
2026-10-13

From the GitHub API on . These numbers are a snapshot, not live. GitHub detected the license as MIT.

Compose file

Config check passed docker compose config exited 0 on this exact file on 2026-10-22.
docker-compose.yml Version 1
version: '2'

services:
  mysqldata:
    image: mysql:8.4
    command: /bin/true

  mysql:
    image: mysql:8.4
    restart: always
    env_file:
      - ../mysql.env
    volumes_from:
      - mysqldata

  web:
    image: ghcr.io/huginn/huginn-single-process
    restart: always
    ports:
      - "3000:3000"
    # Uncomment to run the bundled Smokescreen egress proxy and route all
    # outbound HTTP(S) requests through it, so that Agents cannot reach
    # private or link-local addresses.  See doc/manual/outbound-requests.md.
    # environment:
    #   - ENABLE_SMOKESCREEN=true
    env_file:
      - ../mysql.env
    depends_on:
      - mysql

  threaded:
    image: ghcr.io/huginn/huginn-single-process
    command: /scripts/init bin/threaded.rb
    restart: always
    # Uncomment to run the bundled Smokescreen egress proxy and route all
    # outbound HTTP(S) requests through it, so that Agents cannot reach
    # private or link-local addresses.  See doc/manual/outbound-requests.md.
    # environment:
    #   - ENABLE_SMOKESCREEN=true
    env_file:
      - ../mysql.env
    depends_on:
      - mysql
      - web

From the app's own repository: github.com/huginn/huginn/blob/74581b0/docker/single-process/docker-compose.yml.

Compose file from huginn/huginn, used inside a checkout of that repository (documented setup B).

Install

  1. Docker with the Compose plugin and git (github.com/huginn/huginn/blob/74581b0/docker/single-process/README.md)

    A host with Docker, the Docker Compose plugin and git. This entry needs a checkout of the project repository.

  2. Get the source at commit 74581b0 (github.com/huginn/huginn/blob/74581b0/docker/single-process/README.md)
    git init huginn
    cd huginn
    git remote add origin https://github.com/huginn/huginn.git
    git sparse-checkout init --cone
    git sparse-checkout set docker/single-process
    git fetch --depth 1 --filter=blob:none origin 74581b082883cd9aa894db7c5671fa7fda6c579f
    git checkout FETCH_HEAD
  3. Go to the folder the docs use (github.com/huginn/huginn/blob/74581b0/docker/single-process/README.md)
    cd docker/single-process
  4. The compose file in the checkout: docker/single-process/docker-compose.yml (shown here for reading) (github.com/huginn/huginn/blob/74581b0/docker/single-process/docker-compose.yml)

    Use the compose file shown above.

  5. What the compose file check ran with (github.com/huginn/huginn/blob/74581b0/docker/single-process/README.md)

    The compose file check ran in a checkout of huginn/huginn at 74581b082883cd9aa894db7c5671fa7fda6c579f (a sparse checkout: the top-level files and the folder docker/single-process), in the folder docker/single-process. The Docker guide for the single-process image tells the reader to run docker-compose up -d in the docker/single-process folder.

  6. Start it (github.com/huginn/huginn/blob/74581b0/docker/single-process/README.md)
    docker compose up -d
  7. Open the app (github.com/huginn/huginn/blob/74581b0/docker/single-process/docker-compose.yml)

    Open http://localhost:3000. The compose file publishes host port 3000 for the web service.

Compose file check: config_ok on 2026-10-22.

Gotchas and maintenance

Gotchas

Signals

  • Open issues and pull requests: 703
  • Last push: 2026-10-18 (4 days before this page was built)
  • Latest release: v2026.10.14 on 2026-10-13 (9 days before this page was built)