Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Standing Queries about the World
This is my second post about Huginn, a tool that I’ve been working on with the generous support of other open source collaborators. Huginn is a light-weight platform for building data-gathering and data-reacting tasks for everyday life. Think of it as an open source Yahoo! Pipes, IFTTT, or Zapier.
Huginn is an open source platform for creating automated data-gathering and data-reacting tasks. It allows users to build standing queries that monitor the web and trigger actions based on specified conditions, such as… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Standing Queries about the World launched in 2014; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hugging Chat▲374The first open source alternative to ChatGPT
2023 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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Hi! I'm Marcell, and I'm working on FetchFox (https://fetchfoxai.com). It's a Chrome extension that lets you use AI to scrape any website for any data. I'd love to get your feedback. Here's a quick demo showing how you can use it to scrape leads from an auto dealer directory. What's cool is that it scrapes non-uniform pages, which is quite hard to do with "traditional" scrapers: https://youtu.be/wPbyPSFsqzA A little background: I've written lots and lots of scrapers over the last 10+ years. They're fun to write when they work, but the internet has changed in ways…
2024 · fetchfoxai.com · its alternatives →
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Alright so if you run a self-hosted blog, you've probably noticed AI companies scraping it for training data. And not just a little (RIP to your server bill). There isn't much you can do about it without cloudflare. These companies ignore robots.txt, and you're competing with teams with more resources than you. It's you vs the MJs of programming, you're not going to win. But there is a solution. Now I'm not going to say it's a great solution...but a solution is a solution. If your website contains content that will trigger their scraper's safeguards, it will get dropped from their data…
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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💥 Fast State-of-the-Art Tokenizers optimized for Research and Production - huggingface/tokenizers
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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QueryPal▲553Get instant, AI-powered answers from your company knowledge
2024 · querypal.com · its alternatives →
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Open-source live-chat, email support, omni-channel desk. An alternative to Intercom, Zendesk, Salesforce Service Cloud etc. 🔥💬 - chatwoot/chatwoot
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Gradio 5.0▲224connect nodes to build AI pipelines, powered by Hugging Face
2024 · gradio.app · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, This is Jan, founder of Apify, a web scraping and automation platform. Drawing on our team's years of experience, today we're launching Crawlee [1], the web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js that's designed for the fastest development and maximum reliability in production. For details, see the short video [2] or read the announcement blog post [3]. Main features: - Supports headless browsers with Playwright or Puppeteer - Supports raw HTTP crawling with Cheerio or JSDOM - Automated parallelization and scaling of crawlers for best performance - Avoids blocking using…
2022 · crawlee.dev · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! We’ve built Pretzel, an open-source data exploration and visualization tool that runs fully in the browser and can handle large files (200 MB CSV on my 8gb MacBook air is snappy). It’s also reactive - so if, for example, you change a filter, all the data transform blocks after it re-evaluate automatically. You can try it here: https://pretzelai.github.io/ (static hosted webpage) or see a demo video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73wNEun_L7w You can play with the demo CSV that’s pre-loaded (GitHub data of text-editor adjacent projects) or upload…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Sup HN, So I got tired of bouncing between Flightradar, MarineTraffic, and Twitter every time something kicked off globally, so I wrote a dashboard to aggregate it all locally. It’s called Shadowbroker. I’ll admit I leaned way too hard into the "movie hacker" aesthetic for the UI, but the actual pipeline underneath is real. It pulls commercial/military ADS-B, the AIS WebSocket stream (about 25,000+ ships), N2YO satellite telemetry, and GDELT conflict data into a single MapLibre instance. Getting this to run without melting my browser was the hardest part. I'm running this on a laptop…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Benchmark proxies for reliable, target-specific scraping
Aug 2026 · scrapeops.io · its alternatives →
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Embrace the APIs of the future. Hug aims to make developing APIs as simple as possible, but no simpler. - hugapi/hug
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2013 · tamber.com · its alternatives →
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2011 · hastebin.com · its alternatives →
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HuginnDB▲2Keyboard-First desktop database manager
Aug 2026 · huginndb.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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[I'm the author] Spall is a web-accessible profiler that I made to help my web-dev friends load gigabyte+ JSON traces without lunch-break-long load times. Recently, Spall got experimental support for auto-tracing with binary traces (along with an in-progress native-port, to give it more memory headroom), which was used to help track down and fix some hard-to-spot lock contention issues in the Odin-language compiler. I demoed it at the Handmade Seattle conference in October, https://guide.handmade-seattle.com/c/2022/spall/, with a head-to-head against Perfetto,…
2023 · gravitymoth.com · its alternatives →
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Making the community's best AI chat models available to everyone. - huggingface/chat-macOS
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Tantivy▲68A full-text, horse-speed search engine library in Rust
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2014 · needlehunt.com · its alternatives →
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Step into the future with Searchbase Cloud's AI-enhanced search capabilities. Effortless to integrate, intuitive to use, and built for insightful discoveries. Transform your data into action with the smartest search on the market. Join the revolution.
2024 · searchbase.dev · its alternatives →
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