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Well, it’s fun to see Huginn on HN! I’m the original author, but now it’s maintained by other excellent folks. I still use Huginn almost daily. It’s kind of my
by tectonic 5y ago
Well, it’s fun to see Huginn on HN! I’m the original author, but now it’s maintained by other excellent folks.
I still use Huginn almost daily. It’s kind of my exocortex at this point, and the secret sauce for staying abreast of space industry news for Orbital Index (https://orbitalindex.com https://orbitalindex.com).
- detaro 5y agoDo you have a writeup, or know of writeups by others, that go into detail of your use? Always a bit hard to imagine given universal tools like this.
- tectonic 5y agoI have a few on my blog, https://blog.andrewcantino.com https://blog.andrewcantino.com, but nothing comprehensive. I mostly use it to monitor Reddit/HN/Twitter/various blogs for certain keywords, and also to keep an eye on local things that I want to know about (weather, events, emergencies, etc.).
- monkeydust 5y agoIs it able to say login to my LinkedIn account and scan posts for keywords and alert me on matching posts?
- theshrike79 5y agoLinkedIn is as sketchy as Facebook on automated logins. They want to keep their data exclusive to them (and to people who pay for API access).
- capableweb 5y agoIt's trivial to write your own agents, and use other 3rd party gems in those agents. For fetching data from LinkedIn, checkout https://github.com/mdesjardins/linkedin-v2 https://github.com/mdesjardins/linkedin-v2 (YMMV)
- lloydatkinson 5y agoI have zero Ruby knowledge, how useful will it be for me? Can it all be done with drag and drop?
- capableweb 5y agoI don't know Huginn much in detail, but if you do know any OOP language since before, just the basics around Objects, then Ruby will be fairly simple to pick up as well. Like most OOP languages, it has just minor differences in syntax in comparison to other OOP languages.
- bluehatbrit 5y agoI was in a similar position when I started using Huginn, I've managed to avoid Ruby for the most part (although dabbled in it for a few other things recently) and it's been pretty plain sailing. The only thing is you're limiting yourself to the pre-bundled "agents". For me that's been fine as I mostly do various bits of web scraping, api calls, etc, if you wanted to interact with more complex systems that don't run over HTTP you might find yourself wanting to write a custom agent.