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Is there any way to implement agents in python rather than JavaScript/ruby? Looks interesting but I don’t want to invest energy in building fluency in these ot

• DailyHN 7y ago
  Not exactly. You could write python externally (cloud functions/aws lambda) and then use huginn to call that over HTTP. This doesn't require any coding. Huginn has existing agents that you can easily configure to make HTTP requests (PostAgent and WebsiteAgent). And, depending what you are planning to do with huginn, simply sending data from your python script to huginn using the WebhookAgent may be sufficient.
• oskapt 7y ago
  I run Huginn in a Kubernetes cluster with most of its heavy lifting done by HTTP calls to OpenFaaS running in the same cluster. This let me write complex logic in Python but have Huginn handle the execution, triggers, filtering, and delivery of the data. Among other things I use it to scrape Twitter for interesting Kubernetes news and follow the retweets back to people who link to their own websites so that our editorial department can vet them for invitation into our writing program. Any particular author/account only appears once. It generates around 40 new candidates each day. I also use it to scrape the Chilean public alert website (onemi.cl) for alerts in my region ( forest fire, major weather), run those through the translate API and then send the English translations to my and my wife’s phones via Pushover. These are things that I want to control and customize, and I vastly prefer running my own systems over trusting any third party.
• j88439h84 7y ago
  This comment links to a fork that allows other langauges https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21773803 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21773803