Official Agent Suggestions Thread

[0xdevalias]

(Started from discussions in #344)

Official 'suggest an agent' thread for Huginn!!

Have a cool idea for an agent that you want to see implemented?

• Firstly, please check to see if the agent is already on the list.
• Also have a quick look through the Issues to make sure it's not already being worked on.
• Comment on this thread and we will add it to the list below!
• If the agent is already on this list but you still want to throw extra support behind it, feel free to comment with your +1

Want to work on one of the agents on the list?

• Create a new issue/pull request to discuss it and reference this issue so we can reference it on the list below and mark it as being in progress.
• If there is already an issue reference and it's closed, tag one of us to reopen the issue for you.

Agent Suggestions

(Note: This list should be maintained in alphabetical order, ticked items mean in progress/actively being worked on, ticked items should be moved to 'in progress' list)

In Progress

• Delayed Reaction Agent (Delayed Reaction Agent (Scheduling Events in the Future) #174, Agent to regenerate events at a particular time or delay #197?)
• Event Mixer Agent (EventMixer Agent #262)
• @KenYN's Time Gateway Agent ((KenYN's) Time Gateway Agent #351)
• Real RSS Agent (Real RSS Agent #11, Data output agent #203)

Backlog

• AfterShip Agent (AfterShip Agent #295)
• AgentCreatorAgent(#459)
• AgentDiagnosticAgent(#459)
• App.net support (incl. for Broadcasts and other Channels)
• Bitcoin Agent - send and receive Bitcoin payments
• Bitcoin Spending Agent (Bitcoin Spending Agent #183)
• Boxcar support for sending push notification messages to iOS devices
• CalendarAgent (#459)
• CalendarOutputAgent (like DataOutputAgent; I would probably write one - @knu)
• Clipper Agent (Clipper agent #66)
• DeviantArt Agent (DeviantArt Agent #289)
• Dropbox Agent (Dropbox Agent #321)
• Evernote Agent (Evernote Agent #320)
• Fancy Hands Agent (Fancy Hands Agent #319)
• Feedly support (get marked for later)
• Geofencing Agent (Geofencing Agent #5)
• GitHub agent see https://github.com/peter-murach/github
• Gmail Agent (Gmail Agent #10)
• Google Calendar Agent (Google Calendar Agent #344)
• Google Diff Match Patch support http://code.google.com/p/google-diff-match-patch/
• Google Search results (changes in SERP for specified keyword and/or specified url)
• Google Spreadsheets
• Hubot Agent (Hubot Agent #352)
• IFTTT -> Huginn Bridge Agent (IFTTT -> Huginn Bridge (Agent) AKA IFTTT Wordpress Custom Webhook Hack #331)
• IRC Agent (IRC agent(s): how to go about it #113)
• A Jabber Agent that listens for incoming messages and spits them out as Events
• Naive Bayes Agent - classify events based on training data
• MailFetching Agent (MailFetching Agent #129)
• Mqtt subscriber/publisher (see http://mqtt.org)
• Monitoring 'acceleration/deceleration' of values (Monitoring 'acceleration/deceleration' of values #178)
• PagerDuty - trigger PagerDuty incidents based on events, or take different actions based on incoming PagerDuty incidents.
• Pocket support ( put something into read queue)
• Readability support ( put something into read later)
• Reddit Agent (Reddit Agent #16)
• RescueTime support (detect/report productivity or lack thereof)
• Trakt.tv Agent http://trakt.tv/api-docs
• Tumblr Agent (Tumblr Agent #290)
• Website status monitoring (alert when website is down)
• Websockets Agent (Websockets Agent #192)
• Whois tracking (detect changes in whois details for a domain)
• WSDL-defined web-service Agent
• Zinc.io Agent

Done

• CommanderAgent (AgentRunnerAgent #459 -> Add CommanderAgent, which controls other agents on a schedule or incoming event. #570)
• Pushover support (Pushover Agent #233)

Similar services to Huginn (for inspiration)

• https://github.com/cantino/huginn/wiki/Similar-or-Complimentary-to-Huginn

[0xdevalias]

@cantino / @dsander I can see this checklist getting pretty long/unruly pretty quickly, and perhaps management a bit painful. Do you think an official Huginn Agent Suggestion Trello board might be a good idea? (would have a similar setup to above, can still reference GitHub issues, and should be a bit cleaner/easier to manage)

[CloCkWeRX]

Various agents I'd be interested in contributing to (have existing ruby doing parts of this, which might only need UI/adapting)

• Google tasks agent (So when I add an email as a google task, I can send it to trello)
• Trello agent
• Xero agent (So when I book leave, it can be added to a calendar)

Much bigger integrations/possibilities:

• Ninjablocks integration - http://ninjablocks.com/pages/api-docs - a mix of Node, Physical sensors and MQTT (newer versions) lets you fire events for door opening, xbmc playing or actuate power switches. Has rudimentary rules engine built in; but rather than re-invent the wheel something like huginn could go a long way. Useful because it speaks 433mhz.
• TheThingSystem integration - http://thethingsystem.com/ - NodeJS + Raspberry Pi + a load of plugins. Integrates with everything from lightbulbs, aircons, to Telsa Model S. Much more developer focused at the moment.

[cantino]

These all sound very interesting @CloCkWeRX, we'd love to have your involvement!

[0xdevalias]

@CloCkWeRX Definitely a fan of Trello (#346 related), and Xero could be interesting too (does that mean you're an aussie too (Canberra based myself), or do they do international stuff?)

[CloCkWeRX]

Am an Aussie (SA based). I have a few days free, so I'll spend a bit getting my local dev env happy. I'll probably focus on the xero part first - what I've got works with the payroll API for who's taking leave; though there's plenty of other bits and pieces that are interesting if you a small/medium business (invoice raised, payment made events?).

[0xdevalias]

Cool :)

I've done a little with Xero through work. There are 3 auth methods for the API: private (public/private key), public (Oauth, key only valid for 30mins) and partner (Oauth, key doesn't expire)

The most useful one for something like Huginn is obviously partner, but there are a bunch of hoops and stuff to jump through to get that one as I understand it.

Will definitely be interested to see what you come up with!

[virtadpt]

@gingerbeardman Hax is quite the power user.

Hi, @haxwithaxe. o/ Been a long time.

[martinorob]

Hi all, the last think that I use with FTTT is auto publish on LinkedIn.
mia possible to make a “Twitter like agent” to post on LinkedIn from for example a tweet or an rss feed?

thanks

[gingerbeardman]

@martinorob you could use LinkedIn API and POST Agent to do post on linked in right now. That could be triggered by RSS feed, no problem.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/consumer/integrations/self-serve/share-on-linkedin

[martinorob]

@gingerbeardman works great! Thank you!

[tmladek]

I'd love a Mastodon agent (as in #2230)!

I wish it were possible to just POST to an URL and make a post, but... OAuth :/

[hihouhou]

I'd love a Mastodon agent (as in #2230)!

I wish it were possible to just POST to an URL and make a post, but... OAuth :/

like https://github.com/hihouhou/huginn_mastodon_publish_agent ?

[virtadpt]

I'd love a Mastodon agent (as in #2230)!
I wish it were possible to just POST to an URL and make a post, but... OAuth :/

It's pretty straightforward: https://drwho.virtadpt.net/archive/2018-08-20/interfacing-huginn-with-mastodon/

[poopledoople]

Google Drive please! It's the only reason why I haven't started with Huginn yet.

[poopledoople]

Youtube is another. Use case is being sent an email when a new Youtube video from a specific channel has been released.

[haxwithaxe]

YouTube channels have RSS feeds built-in.

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[virtadpt]

This. https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=THE_CHANNEL_ID_HERE (souce)

Example: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCuAXFkgsw1L7xaCfnd5JJOw

[ofilin]

Please add LibreTranslate https://github.com/LibreTranslate/LibreTranslate support

[gingerbeardman]

Please add LibreTranslate support

@ofilin Looks like you should be able to use that with a standard Post Agent

[steph-sysinfo]

Hi all, I would be interested in Skedpal agent with similar functionnality as provided in Zapier.

[Sieboldianus]

Not a user of Huginn, so far, but I came here because it looks like a possible route for my automation problem:

I have a number of monthly manual tasks that I could not automate so far.

One of them is getting PDF from login-protected websites, saving pdfs in specific folders with naming conventions (renaming etc.) and uploading those to my nextcloud.

There are many different websites - the most painful are banking accounts, of which I have 5, with overall 12 PDFs to download & rename each month. I think this is quite difficult to automate, since banking sites have 2FA. There are websites like Spectre or saltedge (suggested by Firefly III) that allow you to provide your full credentials and they will scrape your bank account - but I would give up all banking security to be able to use this.

So I am aiming to start with a simpler one: My phone company PDFs. They are behind a simple login form (user & pw) and uploaded for the past 6 months. I always forget to check regularly enough to download all. The url is phonecompanyxyz.com/get_pdf.php?value=-6. Are there any self-hosted apps available that I could use to automate this?

My current idea is to perhaps use bash & cron in a custom script via curl:

1. Loading the initial login page to get cookies & CSRF token
2. Submitting email address with cookies (POST)
3. Pressing "Log In" after submitting password with cookies (POST)
4. Downloading PDF, renaming
5. Uploading PDF to Nextcloud via API/Curl

This sounds a painful lot of work - maybe Huginn could be an alternative? I read that saving PDF files or attaching binary results to events is not possible #433 so far. So maybe I could use a custom Huginn Webhook to login, and get the file via a bash script?

[gingerbeardman]

@Sieboldianus personally, I would go the bash+cron route.

It's likely your bank website uses JavaScript, so you couldn't use the plain Website Agent anyway, you'd have to use a Post Agent to browserless/phantomjs etc. feeding the results into a Website Agent, which complicates things. You'd have to get the PDF link and auth credentials, and then pass to a Shell Command Agent (which is locked by default in Huginn config) to do the download.

I just don't see how Huginn is making your life easier in any way here. Unless this sounds easier to you?!

[Sieboldianus]

Thanks so much @gingerbeardman for the answer. This was my conclusion, too, this morning. And I went the Selenium route. And it works (shared my code here).

You are right, I am not sure how much could be added with Huginn. Some pieces still come to my mind:

• Have a "Selenium" Agent, where all the generic parameters are configured (including connection to remote Docker-Chromedriver) and only the python-selenium-webparsing code needs to be added, depending on the website. In my example, you can see this is not a lot of code: 1. Login 2. Download PDF
• Have some kind of PDF-Upload Agent or Backup Agent that would upload results (PDFs) to (e.g.) Nextcloud, using Curl

Yet, I expect there is not much need for such a feature update. I'll stick with cron+bash+python+selenium+curl for the moment.

[BoBeR182]

ChatGPT / Other LLM agent support

[zombiehoffa]

It would be awesome to have a nextdns api agent (https://nextdns.github.io/api/) especially to stream logs and sound alarms on specific events.

[adamus1red]

Being able to pull data from Twitch would be handy, i.e. notifications of streams going live, etc

[hihouhou]

Being able to pull data from Twitch would be handy, i.e. notifications of streams going live, etc

https://github.com/hihouhou/huginn_twitch_agent ?

[mascimax]

formidable form agent
https://formidableforms.com/knowledgebase/formidable-api/#kb-update-an-entry

[gingerbeardman]

@mascimax seems that is standard RESTful so already possible, eg. using the Post Agent

[ReVoLt112]

@hihouhou your influxdb agent, merged into official release would be nice!

https://github.com/hihouhou/huginn_influxdb_write_data_agent

[gingerbeardman]

@ReVoLt112 can't it be used as it is? why does it need to be merged into official?

[hihouhou]

@ReVoLt112 can't it be used as it is? why does it need to be merged into official?

https://rubygems.org/gems/huginn_influxdb_write_data_agent :-) you can add it like other agents/gems needed in your .env

[virtadpt]

@ReVoLt112 can't it be used as it is? why does it need to be merged into official?

It would be really nice to see some new official agent types added? Having lots of third-party ones is fine, that's a healthy ecosystem, but there's something to be said for seeing some new stuff in the main project as well.

[gingerbeardman]

Personally I'd prefer to see bugs fixed and things not break with each update.

[ReVoLt112]

@ReVoLt112 can't it be used as it is? why does it need to be merged into official?

It would be really nice to see some new official agent types added? Having lots of third-party ones is fine, that's a healthy ecosystem, but there's something to be said for seeing some new stuff in the main project as well.

Is there a tutorial for implementing 3rd party agents into docker-compose?

[hihouhou]

@ReVoLt112 can't it be used as it is? why does it need to be merged into official?

It would be really nice to see some new official agent types added? Having lots of third-party ones is fine, that's a healthy ecosystem, but there's something to be said for seeing some new stuff in the main project as well.

Is there a tutorial for implementing 3rd party agents into docker-compose?

do like me, you only have to generate a new huginn image with updated .env file -> https://github.com/hihouhou/docker-huginn/blob/master/.env#L181 your remove the comment and add huginn_influxdb_write_data_agent