Huginn
Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf — the web's personal automation engine
Overview
Requirements
Recommended VPS
Hostinger · KVM 2
2 vCPU · 8192 MB · 100 GB
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2 vCPU · 8192 MB · 100 GB
Hostinger · KVM 4
4 vCPU · 16384 MB · 200 GB
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Docker Compose
# Generated by Run This Ai — docker-compose.yml
services:
huginn:
image: huginn/huginn:latest
restart: unless-stopped
ports:
- 8080:8080
volumes:
- ./data/huginn:/data
Huginn: install
Huginn
Huginn is an open-source, self-hosted automation platform that lets you build agents to monitor and act on the web on your behalf. With 49k+ GitHub stars, it acts like IFTTT or Zapier but entirely under your control — no cloud dependency, full privacy. Create agents that scrape websites, send email/SMS notifications, post to social media, aggregate RSS feeds, transform data, and trigger complex workflows. Everything runs on your own server with Docker. Perfect for automating repetitive online tasks, building personal dashboards, and connecting web services together.
Prerequisites
- Docker installed (version 24.0+)
- Docker Compose (version 2.20+)
- At least 1GB RAM (2GB recommended)
Quick start with Docker
# Pull the image
docker pull huginn/huginn:latest
# Run the container
docker run -d --name huginn -p 8080:8080 huginn/huginn:latestKey features
- Self-hosted and open source
- Docker-based deployment
- License: MIT
- Repository: https://github.com/huginn/huginn
- Docker image:
huginn/huginn:latest
Huginn: overview
Huginn
Huginn is an open-source, self-hosted automation platform that lets you build agents to monitor and act on the web on your behalf. With 49k+ GitHub stars, it acts like IFTTT or Zapier but entirely under your control — no cloud dependency, full privacy. Create agents that scrape websites, send email/SMS notifications, post to social media, aggregate RSS feeds, transform data, and trigger complex workflows. Everything runs on your own server with Docker. Perfect for automating repetitive online tasks, building personal dashboards, and connecting web services together.
Key features
- Self-hosted and open source
- Docker-based deployment
- License: MIT
- Repository: https://github.com/huginn/huginn
- Docker image:
huginn/huginn:latest
What it's good for
Huginn runs entirely on your own infrastructure — your data never leaves your server.
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Guides & articles
Automating the Web with Huginn: From RSS to Social Media in Minutes
Learn how to automate the web with Huginn. Build RSS-to-social pipelines, monitor websites, and create complex multi-agent workflows — all self-hosted with Docker.
Huginn: Complete Guide to Your Personal Web Automation Engine
Complete guide to Huginn - the open-source self-hosted automation engine. Learn how to set up with Docker, create agents, and automate the web.