Comment by robk | Hacker News Reader

Comment by robk | Hacker News Reader

I run a Huginn server which has hundreds of recipes. Most scrape websites and send me updates either by pushover or email for things that matter

-- news sites via rss with heavy keyword filtering for news that's important to me like hometown news etc (Google alerts style)

-- firmware updates from various devices that wouldn't otherwise notify me like kindle

-- posts up voted over X times in a period on smaller, specialized subreddits of interest

- daily digests of message boards I follow

- flight price alerts from persistent searches on routes I follow

- account updates via polling over websites like my frequent flyer accounts etc

I also love keyboard macros built into ios and have dozens for commonly used things I type.

Ooh also I automate a bunch of news downloads via calibre and Amazon's email to kindle service. So ive got Sunday papers for the cities care about, the Economist, etc all ready and synced when I fly or take a train each week. And updates are easy to just enable my phones Hotspot and go for it

Nice. I haven't quite jumped from IFTTT/Zapier to Huginn yet but this is something I plan to do as well. Have you compared it with beehive [1]?

[1] https://github.com/muesli/beehive

Seems quite similar, albeit perhaps bit more extensible? I'm just comfortable w/ Huginn now and haven't had the need for anything else.

Nice! Where do you host your Huginn server? I've had trouble getting Huginn running on my RPi, I've to try again soon to get it running. Any chance you'd be willing to share some of your recipies? I know someone who scrapes a certain deals website in my country, and gets Telegram texts for items matching certain parameters, which is cool.

Just on a cheapie $5 a month VPS. Dockerizing makes it very easy to get going.

I've put some recipes on the wiki off Github. Most of them are quite teasy to string together once you just get the right extraction pattern, then they're simple WebsiteAgent -> Dedupe Agent -> (Email/Digest/Pushover Agent)

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