Huginn
Huginn is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Automation & Workflows category, licensed MIT and written mainly in Ruby. It is a self-hosted alternative to Zapier and IFTTT. It has 50,140 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 24, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 50,140
- Forks
- 4,317
- Open issues
- 606
- Commits, last 12 months
- 468
- Last commit
- Oct 24, 2026
- Latest release
- v2026.10.24Oct 24, 2026
- Created
- Mar 10, 2013
- License
- MITOpen source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 24, 2026, 468 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases8 releases in 12 months
- Welcomes contributors50 open good-first-issue or help-wanted issues and a contributing guide
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 24, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 468 |
| Latest release | v2026.10.24 (Oct 24, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 8 |
| Releases, all time | 9 |
| Open issues | 606 |
| Open pull requests | 82 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Mar 10, 2013 |
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About Huginn
Build agents that monitor and act on your behalf.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/huginn/huginn.
Topics
- automation
- notifications
- scraper
- webscraping
- feedgenerator
- rss
- agent
- monitoring
- feed
- huginn
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Is Huginn free and open source?
Yes. Huginn is open-source software released under the MIT license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run Huginn with Docker?
Huginn does not list an official Docker image. It installs natively (Ruby), so follow the install steps in its README or look for a community-maintained container.
What are the best alternatives to Huginn?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Huginn include n8n, Apache Airflow and changedetection.io. Huginn itself is a self-hosted alternative to Zapier and IFTTT.
Is Huginn actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Huginn was on Oct 24, 2026 with 468 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v2026.10.24, published Oct 24, 2026. It had 606 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.