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OmniGet

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Download Udemy and Hotmart courses, YouTube, Instagram, X, Pinterest, TikTok and 1,800+ other sites.
Then transcribe, convert, and manage what you saved. One free desktop app, no terminal.

_{Free. Open source under GPL-3.0. No account, no ads, no telemetry on what you download. Your files stay on your computer.}

_{This project is an independent fork and is not affiliated with OmniGet or with Tonho.
Maintained by igect under GPL-3.0 · Based on original architecture by Tonho}

Contents

• Why OmniGet
• Download and install
• Your first download in one minute
• What OmniGet downloads
• The browser extension, step by step
• The Tools section: 158 tools in 25 categories
• OmniGet for AI agents: MCP server and Claude Code plugin
• Plugins: Courses, Telegram, Convert
• Everything else in the box
• Privacy and what OmniGet refuses to do
• Code signing policy
• Frequently asked questions
• Command line
• Build from source
• Contributing and translations

Why OmniGet

You bought a course and want it on your disk before the platform pulls it. You keep a yt-dlp cheat sheet because the flags never stick. You have one site for Instagram stories, another for X videos, a Chrome extension for Pinterest, a Python script for subtitles, and none of them remember your login.

OmniGet puts all of that behind one text box. Paste a link, see a preview with quality options, click download. The same window then plays the course, reads the PDF, transcribes the audio and backs up the Pinterest board. yt-dlp and FFmpeg install themselves and stay updated, so there is nothing to configure and no terminal to open.

How it compares

yt-dlp is the engine OmniGet runs on, and OmniGet would not exist without it. If you live in a terminal and only want files, yt-dlp alone is the right tool.

Download and install

Pick your system. Every build is published on the Releases page. Updates arrive inside the app.

The first launch warning, and how to clear it

OmniGet is not signed with a paid certificate, so each system shows a warning the first time. This is normal for open source desktop apps and you handle it once.

Windows. SmartScreen shows a blue box. Click More info, then Run anyway.

macOS. Gatekeeper refuses to open the app and may say it is “damaged”. After you drag OmniGet into Applications, open Terminal (Spotlight, type “Terminal”) and paste these two lines:

xattr -cr /Applications/omniget.app
codesign --force --deep --sign - /Applications/omniget.app

Then open OmniGet from Launchpad as usual.

Linux, AppImage on Debian 12+ or Ubuntu 24.04+. Those releases ship without FUSE 2, which AppImage needs. If the file fails with a libfuse error, run sudo apt install libfuse2, or launch it with ./omniget.AppImage --appimage-extract-and-run. The .deb avoids this entirely.

Linux media plugins

OmniGet draws its window with WebKitGTK, and WebKitGTK plays every <video> and <audio> through GStreamer. If the GStreamer plugins are missing, WebKitGTK does not fail the media quietly: it aborts its own web process the moment a player appears, and you are left with an empty window. Most desktop distributions already have the plugins. Arch and the minimal server images treat them as optional, so install them once:

sudo apt install gstreamer1.0-plugins-good gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad gstreamer1.0-libav   # Debian, Ubuntu
sudo dnf install gstreamer1-plugins-good gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free gstreamer1-plugin-libav   # Fedora
sudo pacman -S gst-plugins-good gst-plugins-bad gst-libav   # Arch

gstreamer1.0-plugins-good (gst-plugins-good) is the one that stops the crash, because the audio sink WebKitGTK insists on lives there. The other two carry the H.264 and AAC decoders, so without them a player opens but stays silent or black. The .deb and .rpm ask for all three, so this only comes up with the AppImage or a package built by hand.

Portable mode

Create an empty file named portable.txt (or .portable) next to the Windows .exe and relaunch. Settings, the database, cookies, plugins, caches, yt-dlp and FFmpeg all move to a data folder next to the executable. Nothing touches AppData, so the whole install fits on a USB stick.

Your first download in one minute

1. Open OmniGet. The setup screen asks for your language and theme, then installs yt-dlp and FFmpeg with one click. yt-dlp is checked against its SHA-256 before it runs.
2. Copy any link: a YouTube video, an Instagram reel, an X post, a Pinterest board, a magnet, a direct file URL.
3. Paste it in the box on the home screen. OmniGet detects the site and shows the title, thumbnail and available qualities. Pick one and press Enter.

The Downloads page shows speed, phase and ETA read straight from the downloader, so a stalled download looks stalled instead of frozen at “3 seconds left”. Interrupted downloads resume where they stopped. Rate-limited sites get retried with backoff, and connections per site adapt on their own, so YouTube gets up to 16 parallel fragments while a site that answers 429 gets fewer. When a Python 3.10 or newer is present, yt-dlp runs as a zipapp on it and starts in under a second instead of unpacking the bundled binary on every launch.

Skip the window entirely

Copy a link anywhere on your system and press Ctrl+Shift+D (Cmd+Shift+D on macOS). OmniGet reads the clipboard and starts the download in the background. A second hotkey, Ctrl+Shift+M, grabs audio only, so a YouTube link becomes an MP3 without opening anything. It is off until you enable it, and both shortcuts can be rebound in Settings → Downloads → Clipboard & hotkeys.

What OmniGet downloads

OmniGet has native extractors for the platforms people use most, and hands everything else to yt-dlp, which covers roughly 1,800 sites.

Category	Sites and formats
Online courses	38 supported platforms (Hotmart, Udemy, Kiwify, Rocketseat, Coursera, Domestika, Skillshare, and more) through the embedded Courses plugin. Every lesson, section selection, attachments, resume where you stopped.
Video and audio	YouTube (videos, playlists, channels, live from start, chapters, SponsorBlock), Instagram, TikTok, X/Twitter, Reddit, Twitch (VODs, clips, live), Vimeo, Bluesky, Threads, Pinterest, Douyin
Bilibili, signed in	4K, HDR, Dolby Vision, Hi-Res lossless and Dolby Atmos according to your subscription. Danmaku comments as XML, ASS or JSON, NFO files for Kodi and Jellyfin, custom naming templates, 11 URL types including bangumi, courses, favorites, watch later and history
Image galleries	Whole galleries and profiles from 250+ sites through gallery-dl (DeviantArt, Pixiv, ArtStation, Flickr, Tumblr, Imgur, Kemono and more)
Bulk	Paste many links or load a .txt, download whole subreddits, Reddit and X profiles, Instagram and Pinterest profiles, Facebook albums
Files and transfer	.torrent files and magnet links with a built-in BitTorrent client, direct HTTP files, HLS and DASH manifests, and person-to-person transfer between two OmniGet installs with a short word code
Telegram	Photos, videos, files and audio from any channel or group you belong to, saved into organized channel folders (OmniGram/<channel>/), through the embedded Telegram plugin

Options you set once and forget: default quality, audio-only format (MP3, M4A, Opus, FLAC or WAV), subtitle languages and format (SRT, VTT, ASS, embedded or sidecar), thumbnail and metadata embedding, filename template, organize by platform, skip existing files, split by chapters, speed limit, concurrent downloads, proxy. Rules send a given channel or host to a folder and quality of your choice without asking again. Followed channels are checked in the background and can download new uploads automatically with a tray notification.

The browser extension, step by step

The extension does two jobs. On sites it recognizes (YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, X, Reddit, Twitch, Pinterest, Bluesky, Telegram, Vimeo, Udemy, Hotmart, Rocketseat, Bilibili, SoundCloud) it sends the page to OmniGet with one click or with Alt+O. On any other site it watches network traffic for MP4, HLS, DASH, WebM and audio streams and lists them in its popup. In both cases it forwards your cookies and referer, which is what lets OmniGet download private content you are logged into, such as Instagram stories, a paid course, or a members-only video. Cookies are grouped by real site, so a Brazilian .com.br domain gets its own entry instead of sharing one with every other .com.br site. The popup also has a Force H.264 switch for YouTube, for computers that stutter on VP9 and AV1.

For the sites the sniffer cannot see, there is Deep search, a switch in the popup that hooks the page’s own video player and catches playlists that never show up as network requests. It asks for permission on all sites the first time and stays off until then. Around it, the sniffer estimates the size of an HLS stream before you download, pairs the separate video and audio tracks a site serves so you get one file, checks the first bytes of what it found so an HTML error page is never saved as a video, and lets you edit the capture rules in the options page. The same options page can back up the list of extensions you have installed, ahead of Chrome dropping Manifest V2 extensions; that needs the optional “management” permission and asks for it only when you use it.

Pick the level that matches how comfortable you are.

Level 1: from inside the app (no downloads, no zip files)

1. Open OmniGet and install it if you have not. Launch it once.
2. Go to Settings → Plugins → Browser extension. Click Update / Install next to Chrome. OmniGet copies the extension that ships inside it to a folder and opens that folder for you.
3. Open Chrome (Edge, Brave and other Chromium browsers work the same way) and type chrome://extensions in the address bar.
4. Turn on Developer mode with the switch in the top right corner.
5. Click Load unpacked and pick the folder OmniGet just opened.
6. The OmniGet icon appears in the toolbar. An options page opens on its own and says it is looking for the app.
7. Back in OmniGet, still in Settings → Plugins → Browser extension, click Pair extension. Within a few seconds the app says “Extension connected” and the options page turns green. Done.

From now on, visit any supported page and click the icon. The page, its cookies and its title go to OmniGet and the download starts. Your cookies also show up in Settings → Cookies, where the Courses plugin and the Instagram, X and Pinterest tools reuse them.

Level 2: from the release zip

Every release ships omniget-chrome-extension-vX.Y.Z.zip. Download it from the latest release, unzip it, then follow steps 3 to 7 above pointing Load unpacked at the unzipped folder. Use this if you keep the app on one machine and the browser on another, or if you are installing for someone else.

Level 3: Firefox, other browsers and manual pairing

Firefox: Settings → Plugins → Browser extension → Update / Install next to Firefox, then open about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox, click Load Temporary Add-on and pick manifest.json in the exported folder. Firefox drops temporary add-ons on restart, so repeat this until the extension is published on AMO. Safari is not supported yet because Safari extensions must ship through the App Store.

Manual pairing: if Pair extension times out, open the extension’s options page (right-click the icon → Options), then in OmniGet reveal and copy the Pairing token and paste it into the options page. The endpoint URL is detected automatically. The app listens on 127.0.0.1 ports 47720 to 47729 and the token is generated per install, so nothing leaves your machine.

If the extension is installed but OmniGet is closed, clicks fall back to the omniget:// link scheme, which still queues the URL but cannot carry cookies. Tick “Always allow” the first time Chrome asks.

The Tools section: 158 tools in 25 categories

Tools is the part of OmniGet that grew beyond downloading. Each tile is one job: an isolated Rust command with JSON in and JSON out, which is also what lets AI agents drive them through the built-in MCP server. The hub has a search box that understands English and Portuguese (“legenda” finds subtitle tools) and a platform filter, and tools that only run on Windows say so on the tile and stay hidden elsewhere. Everything below runs on your machine; the only tools that touch the network are the ones that fetch from the site they are named after.

Status legend: no mark means ready, beta means it works but has not been tested against every account type, planned means the tile exists so you can see where things are going and does nothing yet.

YouTube (11)

• Download video. Paste a link and pick quality, format and subtitles. Same engine as the home screen.
• Metadata. Save the info, description and thumbnail without the video.
• Thumbnails. Browse every cover image and save it at any resolution.
• Subtitles. Download subtitles, or merge two languages into one bilingual file.
• Comments and chapters. Fetch comments or chapter markers, filter them, export JSON or CSV.
• Live chat. Save the chat replay of a stream as JSON or CSV.
• Subtitle workshop. Edit, translate and re-time SRT, VTT and ASS files with a waveform, two-point sync, find and replace, an auto fix, and AI grammar and translation.
• SponsorBlock. See sponsor, intro and outro segments and get the yt-dlp flags to skip them.
• Dislikes. Likes, dislikes and rating from Return YouTube Dislike.
• Real thumbnail. The frames the CDN already has at 25, 50 and 75 percent, instead of the clickbait cover.
• Force H.264. A switch in the browser extension that keeps YouTube on H.264 instead of VP9 and AV1, for machines that stutter on newer codecs.

Speech and subtitles (8)

• Transcribe. Audio or video to subtitles with whisper.cpp, offline. Models download on demand, Metal acceleration on macOS.
• Text to speech. Natural voices from Microsoft Edge, free, with a synced subtitle file.
• Translate subtitles. Translate an SRT with your AI provider or a LibreTranslate server, keeping the timing.
• Dub from subtitles. Turn an SRT into a voice track that fits each line and optionally replace the video’s audio. beta
• Clone a voice, Design a voice and Isolate vocals through a VoiceStudio install running on your machine. beta
• Dictation. Press a global shortcut, speak, and whisper types the text where your cursor is. beta

Video editing (14)

• Cut a clip. Pick a video on disk and cut out a section. The result lands in the downloads queue.
• Convert. Change container, codec or resolution, or compress, through the Convert plugin.
• Compress to a size. Hit an exact target, 10 MB for Discord or 25 MB for e-mail, with two-pass encoding.
• Video to GIF. A clip as a GIF or animated WebP, with a palette that does not look muddy.
• Cut silence. Find the dead air in a recording and cut it from picture and sound together.
• Convert subtitles. SRT, VTT and ASS between each other, or burn one into the picture.
• Resync subtitles. Late, early or drifting: shift it, stretch it for another frame rate, or fix it with two anchors.
• Restore video. Take out flicker, grain and banding with the filters FFmpeg already carries.
• Stabilize video. Two-pass vidstab: measure the shake across the whole clip, then undo it.
• Photo to sticker. A photo or a clip into a WhatsApp or Telegram sticker that actually fits the size limit.
• Auto captions and Text to speech open the speech tools above.
• Record screen. Screen and system audio through FFmpeg, with a replay buffer that saves what just happened. beta
• Timeline editor. planned

Audio (2)

• Normalize loudness. Two-pass EBU R128, so the audio lands where streaming, podcast or broadcast expects it.
• Remove noise. Hiss, fan and room noise taken out of a recording, with nothing to download.

Instagram (24)

All of these run on your own Instagram session captured by the browser extension, so stories, close friends and your own lists work. Reads are paced and write actions stop on the first sign of a rate limit.

• Download post. Photo, video, reel, IGTV or carousel from a link, best quality.
• Download many links. Paste a list or a .txt and get everything.
• Reel audio. Keep only the sound, as M4A or MP3.
• Stories. Download stories, including close friends, without marking them as seen.
• Highlights. One highlight or every highlight of a profile.
• Who viewed my story. List and export viewers of each active story.
• Profile viewer. Bio, counts, HD photo and whether the account follows you.
• Profile picture in HD.
• Download a profile. All posts, reels, tagged or saved posts, with a limit you choose.
• Who doesn’t follow back. Compare followers and following, protect accounts with a whitelist, unfollow at a safe pace.
• Fans. Accounts that follow you but you don’t follow back, with the option to remove them.
• Mutuals.
• Who unfollowed me. Snapshots of your lists over time show who left and who arrived.
• Ghost followers. Followers who never like or comment, and the ones who engage the most.
• Whitelist. Accounts never suggested for unfollowing.
• Data export. Read Meta’s “Download your information” zip offline: pending requests, close friends, blocked and more.
• Profile analytics. Engagement rate, cadence, best days and hours, hashtags and top posts of any public profile.
• Compare profiles. Up to six profiles side by side.
• Hashtag explorer. Post count, recent and top posts, related hashtags, download.
• Export comments. All comments of a post as CSV, with filter.
• Who liked. List and export the accounts that liked a post.
• Giveaway picker. Draw winners among the comments with rules for mentions, keyword and one entry per person.
• Publish. Photo, carousel, reel, video or story through your session or the official Graph API. beta
• Schedule posts. Queue posts for a date and time. OmniGet publishes them while it is open. beta

X / Twitter (10)

Public data comes through the FxTwitter API without login. Anything private (bookmarks, your follows, Grok on X) uses your X session from the cookie manager.

• Download post. Videos, images and GIFs from any post.
• Unroll thread. The whole thread on one page, exported as Markdown, HTML or text.
• Post to image. A clean PNG card of a post for sharing anywhere.
• Profile X-ray. Engagement, best time to post, top posts and hashtags of any account.
• Profile media. Every photo and video from a profile, original quality, in one go.
• Advanced search. Build queries with X operators, see trends, export results.
• Export bookmarks. All bookmarks with folders, to JSON, CSV, Markdown or HTML. beta
• Who doesn’t follow back. Audit following vs. followers and unfollow safely with a whitelist. beta
• Your X archive. Open the data zip offline: stats, top posts, likes and follow lists.
• Grok. Ask Grok with live X search or summarize a thread, through the xAI API or your X session. beta

Facebook (2)

• Album download. Paste an album link and every photo and video inside it lands in one folder.
• Download video. A single video or reel, straight from the link box.

Reddit (3)

• Download post. Video with sound from v.redd.it, galleries, single images and outside links.
• Archive thread. The post and every comment as Markdown, a browsable HTML page and raw JSON, while they are still there.
• Read my data export. The official Reddit data zip turned into a summary you can actually read.

Pinterest (10)

Works without login for anything public. Cookies are only needed for secret boards and for unsaving.

• Download pin. Image in original quality, video as MP4, GIF, carousel or story pages.
• Board backup. Every pin of a board or section with originals, videos, CSV/JSON and incremental sync.
• Profile backup. All public boards of a profile, one folder per board, plus created pins.
• Search without AI or ads. Filters that hide AI images, promoted pins and videos, then download.
• Similar pins. The “More like this” of any pin, filterable and downloadable.
• Find the source. Destination link, creator, dead-link check, Wayback Machine and reverse image search.
• Duplicates in a board. Identical and near-identical pins, with optional unsave.
• Color palette. Palette of a board or pin as hex, CSS or JSON.
• Offline gallery, PDF, CSV. A board as a searchable HTML gallery, a PDF moodboard or a spreadsheet.
• Keyword ideas. Search suggestions, refinements and the words top pins use.

Twitch (2)

• Emote pack. Every emote and badge of a channel, from Twitch, BTTV, FFZ and 7TV, sorted by provider.
• VOD chat. The whole chat replay of a VOD or clip as JSON, CSV and subtitles, with the busiest minutes marked.

Bilibili (2)

Video downloads from Bilibili live on the home screen. These two are about the floating comments.

• Danmaku export. A video’s danmaku as XML, ASS or JSON without downloading the video.
• Burn danmaku. Paint the comment track onto a local clip and get a shareable MP4.

Spotify (2)

• Themes and colors. Customize the Spotify client with Spicetify themes. beta
• Extensions. Install Spicetify extensions and custom apps from its Marketplace. beta

Music (3)

• Playlist to M3U. Match an exported playlist with the audio files you own and write .m3u8 and .pls for any local player.
• Synced lyrics. Fetch lyrics from LRCLIB and save an .lrc next to each track.
• Spotify history. Open your full data export and see everything Wrapped leaves out.

LinkedIn (4)

All four read the official data export LinkedIn lets you request, on your own machine. Nothing logs in.

• Data overview. Connections, messages, posts and what advertisers know about you.
• Connections. Filter, group and export your connection list.
• Messages. Browse your chat history and save it as a local page.
• Profile score. An offline completeness check with what is missing.

Games (3)

• Switch album. Import screenshots and clips from the Switch SD card, named by game and date.
• Clip organizer. Sort Game Bar, ShadowPlay, OBS and Steam captures into folders by game.
• Runs on Linux? The ProtonDB tier for one game or your whole Steam library.

PDF (13)

• Merge. Join several PDFs into one, in the order you choose.
• Split. Extract pages or break a PDF into parts.
• Compress. Shrink a PDF while keeping it readable.
• Convert. PDF to images or Word, and back.
• OCR. Make scanned PDFs searchable. beta
• Repair. Rebuild a file that will not open: broken cross-reference table, truncated download, junk before the header.
• Password and permissions. Lock a PDF with AES-128, or take the password off one you can already open.
• Watermark and numbering. Stamp text across every page, or Bates-number a batch for filing.
• Crop margins. Cut the white border so the text fills an e-reader screen, found automatically or set by hand.
• Table of contents. Read the bookmarks a PDF has, or give one that has none a proper outline.
• Check redaction. Find text that is still in the file underneath a black bar, and read it back to you.
• Safe PDF. Rebuild a PDF from pixels to strip scripts and forms.
• PDF to Markdown. Clean Markdown with headings, lists and tables, ready to paste into an LLM.

Documents (5)

• SlideShare to PDF. Every slide at the largest size, assembled into one PDF.
• Google Docs export. Public Docs, Slides and Sheets as PDF, DOCX, PPTX or XLSX.
• Calameo pages. Save the pages of a Calameo publication as SVG or JPG. beta
• Image galleries. Whole galleries and profiles from 250+ sites with gallery-dl.
• Scribd. Save readable books as PDF using your own session. planned

Images (9)

• Upscale. Real-ESRGAN on any Vulkan GPU, 2x, 3x or 4x. beta
• Resize images. Batch resize by width, height, fit or percent, converting the format if you want.
• Compress to a size. Hit a target in KB by searching for the best quality that still fits, and say so when it cannot.
• Metadata and GPS. See what a photo carries, location, camera and serial number, and strip it without touching the pixels.
• Duplicate photos. The same picture saved twice, recompressed, resized or cropped, not just byte-identical copies.
• Stitch screenshots. Join scrolled screenshots into one long image without repeating what overlaps.
• Icon pack. One image into favicon.ico, the web PNGs, apple-touch-icon and a macOS .icns.
• Spritesheet. Slice a sheet into frames, pack frames back with an atlas, or resize a folder by rule.
• OCR. Copy the text out of images and slides. beta

System (10, Windows-only items marked)

• Clean caches. Temp files, logs and app caches with rules per operating system. You review the list before anything is deleted.
• Disk analyzer. What takes space, as a treemap plus the largest files, with a send-to-trash button.
• Block ads by hosts. Point ad and telemetry domains at nothing, inside a block of its own that never touches your own lines.
• Startup manager. See what launches with the system and switch items off. beta
• Uninstaller. Remove apps and the leftovers they leave behind. beta
• Privacy shield. Control Windows telemetry, ad ID and tracking settings. Windows. beta
• Harden Windows. Macros, AutoRun, script host, UAC and Defender settings from hardentools, reversible. Windows. beta
• Debloat Windows. Remove preinstalled Store apps. Windows. beta
• Registry cleaner. Orphaned entries, with a .reg backup before removal. Windows. beta
• Software updater. Update programs in bulk through winget, Chocolatey and Scoop. Windows. beta

Files (5)

• Duplicates. Find identical files by hash and free space safely.
• Bulk rename. Regex, counters and case changes with a preview before applying.
• Secure delete. Overwrite the file before removing it, so a recovery tool finds nothing.
• Find files. Instant search with Everything on Windows, Spotlight on macOS or fd on Linux.
• Keep awake. Stop the computer from sleeping during long jobs.

Downloads (2)

• Accelerated download. Big files with 16 connections, resume and checksum via aria2.
• HLS / DASH manifest. Paste a .m3u8 or .mpd with Referer and cookie. FFmpeg saves an MP4.

Automation (1)

• Auto clicker. Click at the exact speed you set, with a global hotkey, limits and random ranges. Windows, macOS and Linux. beta

Phone (1)

• Send to phone. Files, links and text to a paired KDE Connect device.

AI (6)

• Compare prices. The cost of the same model across providers, with prices from LiteLLM and models.dev.
• AI spending. How much OmniGet spent on AI, by day, model and task, from a local ledger.
• Local models (Ollama). See, download and remove local models and use them as a free provider.
• Humanize text. Rewrite AI-sounding text so it reads like a person wrote it, without changing what it says. Runs on the AI provider you configured. beta
• API keys. A local vault for keys and accounts, with a connection test, balance for OpenRouter, DeepSeek, SiliconFlow and New API, and export to Claude Code, Codex, Cherry Studio, opencode or a .env file.
• MCP server. OmniGet’s tools exposed over the Model Context Protocol on the local bridge, 37 tools behind the same token the extension uses, with ready-made config snippets for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, Goose and Codex. See OmniGet for AI agents. beta

CTF and analysis (6)

Six small offline utilities for capture-the-flag puzzles, forensics homework and “what is this file” moments.

• Hash and HMAC. MD5, the SHA family, CRC-32 and HMAC of text or a file, plus a guess at what an unknown hash is.
• What is this file. Signature, readable strings, entropy, and anything hidden past the end of the real file.
• Classic ciphers. Caesar, ROT13, Atbash, Vigenère and Rail Fence, with a brute force that picks the readable answer.
• XOR. Apply a key, or recover one: a single byte by letter frequency, a repeating key by Hamming distance.
• Encodings. base64, base32, hex, URL, HTML entities, binary and morse, both directions, with detection.
• Frequency analysis. Histogram, entropy and index of coincidence, and what that combination usually means.

Every tool that talks to an AI uses the provider you set in Settings → AI: OpenAI, Anthropic, or any OpenAI-compatible local endpoint such as Ollama or LM Studio. The key is stored locally and never logged. The auto clicker, dictation and the replay buffer can each get a global shortcut of their own.

OmniGet for AI agents: MCP server and Claude Code plugin

Two doors, depending on where your agent lives.

Inside the app: the MCP server. Turn it on in Tools → AI → MCP server and OmniGet exposes 37 of its tools over the Model Context Protocol on the same local bridge the browser extension uses, behind the same per-install token. An agent can queue a URL and watch, pause, resume or cancel it in the Downloads panel, merge, split, render, extract text from or sanitize PDFs, transcribe a file with whisper.cpp, run text to speech and OCR, resize images, find duplicates, search files, read X posts, threads, profiles, searches and trends, look up an Instagram profile through your session, compare LLM prices, humanize text, scan disks and caches, list startup items and installed apps, and pull large files or galleries with aria2 and gallery-dl. The page prints the config snippet for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, Goose and Codex, so it is a paste, not a setup. beta

Inside Claude Code: the omniget plugin. The claude-plugin/ folder ships a plugin for Claude Code that needs no desktop app at all. Paste a video, audio or social post URL with a request and the omniget-fetch and omniget-transcribe skills trigger on their own. The slash commands are there when you want to be explicit:

/plugin marketplace add /path/to/omniget/claude-plugin
/plugin install omniget
/omniget:setup                       # installs yt-dlp, ffmpeg and omniget-cli after one confirmation
/omniget:fetch <url> [--audio]       # the media file, to ~/Downloads/omniget
/omniget:transcribe <url|file>       # captions, then local whisper.cpp, then Gemini or OpenAI if you added a key
/omniget:research <url>              # caption plus transcript distilled into a Markdown note with [mm:ss] references
/omniget:doctor                      # what is installed, what is missing, how to add it

Setup downloads the prebuilt omniget-cli for your OS, which gives the skill OmniGet’s native Instagram, X, Bilibili and Threads extractors. A download that fails on a login wall is retried once with the cookies of the browser you name in OMNIGET_COOKIES_FROM_BROWSER. API keys go into ~/.config/ai-keys.env from your own terminal and are never printed back.

Plugins: Courses, Telegram, Convert

Core plugins are embedded directly into the application binary, eliminating runtime download and ABI compatibility errors. The Marketplace page shows active plugins, what each plugin is allowed to do (events, notifications, settings, download folders, proxy, managed tools, download queue), and lets you configure or toggle them.

Courses

The embedded Courses plugin supports 38 learning platforms, including Hotmart, Udemy, Kiwify, Rocketseat, Coursera, Domestika, Skillshare, Alura, and Ebac. Sign in through a webview inside the app, with saved cookies from the extension, or with account credentials where available. OmniGet lists your purchases, opens the course outline so you can select the sections you want (DRM-protected lectures are skipped and reported), and downloads lessons and attachments with optional continuous numbering.

Telegram

Sign in with a QR code or your phone number. Browse every channel and group you belong to, filter by photo, video, document or audio, search files, and download individual media or entire chat archives with a progress list. Media downloads are organized into {download_dir}/OmniGram/{channel_name}/ with sanitized folder names.

Convert

FFmpeg conversions with GPU acceleration where the machine has it: container, codec, resolution, bitrate and compression for video and audio, no internet required.

Everything else in the box

• Command palette (Ctrl+K or Cmd+K) that jumps to any page, setting or tool.
• Clipboard detection that offers to download a copied link with one click on a toast.
• Cookie manager that keeps sessions per site, captured by the extension or imported from a cookies.txt, with a test button per domain.
• Video summaries: paste a URL in Settings → AI, OmniGet fetches the subtitles and summarizes them in the length and language you choose.
• Send a file to someone: pick a file, share the word code, the other person pastes it in their OmniGet.
• Discord Rich Presence showing what you are listening to, watching or reading. Downloads stay private.
• Tray icon, start with system, start minimized, prevent sleep during downloads.
• Every download keeps the exact yt-dlp command it ran. Open it, edit a flag, retry.
• 14 themes, including Catppuccin (four flavors), Dracula, One Dark Pro, three e-ink variants and three Nyxvamp variants.
• 12 languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian, Greek, Russian, Japanese, Persian, Lao, Simplified and Traditional Chinese.
• Runs on Windows, macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel) and Linux (x86_64 and ARM64).

Privacy and what OmniGet refuses to do

Everything runs on your computer. There is no account, no server of ours in the middle, and no telemetry about what you download. Cookies and API keys live in your local profile. The only network calls OmniGet makes on its own are to the sites you asked it to download from, to GitHub for updates and plugins, and to the AI provider you configured, when you use an AI tool.

OmniGet downloads what your own logged-in session can already open. It does not bypass DRM, break paywalls, or share credentials, and DRM-protected lectures are skipped and reported. You are responsible for respecting copyright and each platform’s terms of service. The full text is in the app under About → Terms and ethics.

Code signing policy

Free code signing on Windows provided by SignPath.io, certificate by SignPath Foundation.

Code changes and signed releases are reviewed and approved by the OpenSelena maintainers. See Privacy and what OmniGet refuses to do and the privacy documentation for how OmniGet handles data.

Frequently asked questions

Is OmniGet free? Yes. GPL-3.0, no paid tier, no ads, no account.

Is OmniGet a yt-dlp GUI? Partly. yt-dlp handles the long tail of sites and OmniGet bundles it, verifies it and updates it. On top of that sit native extractors for courses, Instagram, X, Pinterest, Bilibili, Telegram and torrents, a queue with resume and retry, the Tools section, and media conversion.

Can OmniGet download a Udemy or Hotmart course I bought? Yes. The Courses plugin is embedded directly in the app. Sign in through the app, pick the course and sections, and download. Lessons and attachments land in an organized folder per course. 38 platforms are supported, including Hotmart, Udemy, Kiwify, Rocketseat, Coursera, Domestika, and more.

Can it download Instagram stories, close friends or highlights? Yes, using your own session captured by the browser extension. Stories are downloaded without being marked as seen.

Can it download an X video, a whole thread or all media from a profile? Yes. Public posts need no login. Bookmarks and your own follow lists need your X session.

Can it back up a Pinterest board in original quality? Yes, including videos, sections, secret boards with cookies, and incremental sync so you only fetch what is new.

Does it resume interrupted downloads? Yes. Partial files are kept and continued, and rate limits trigger retries with backoff.

Which formats can it save? Video as MP4, MKV or WebM. Audio as MP3, M4A, Opus, FLAC or WAV. Subtitles as SRT, VTT or ASS, embedded or beside the file.

Does it need Python, Node or a terminal? No. Download the app, open it, paste a link. The only terminal step is the one-time macOS Gatekeeper fix above.

macOS says the app is damaged. Run the two commands in the first launch section. It happens because the app is not notarized, and it happens once.

Can it read my Reddit, LinkedIn, Spotify, X or Instagram data export? Yes. Request the export from the platform, then open the zip in the matching tool. It is parsed on your machine and nothing is uploaded.

Can an AI agent use OmniGet? Yes, two ways. The MCP server in Tools → AI exposes 37 tools to Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, Goose and Codex, and the claude-plugin/ folder ships a Claude Code plugin that fetches and transcribes media without the desktop app. See OmniGet for AI agents.

Can I transcribe a video to subtitles offline? Yes. Tools → Speech and subtitles → Transcribe uses whisper.cpp locally. Models download on demand.

Can I run it from a USB stick? Yes, on Windows, with a portable.txt file next to the executable.

Which Linux package should I pick? Debian and Ubuntu: .deb. Fedora, openSUSE, RHEL family: .rpm. Anything else: .AppImage. Both x86_64 and ARM64 are published. OmniGet is not on Flathub.

Command line

omniget-cli ships with every release for Windows, macOS (Intel and Apple Silicon) and Linux. Grab omniget-cli-<version>-<target> from the latest release.

omniget info <url>                     # title, formats and size, downloads nothing
omniget download <url> -q 1080 -o ~/Videos
omniget download <url> --audio-only --subs en,pt
omniget batch links.txt -m 3           # one URL per line, 3 at a time
omniget import-cookies cookies.txt     # Netscape format

Build from source

If you only want to use OmniGet, grab a release. To build it you need Rust (the exact toolchain is pinned in rust-toolchain.toml because the plugin ABI depends on it), Node.js 18+ and pnpm.

git clone https://github.com/OpenSelena/omniget.git
cd omniget
pnpm install
pnpm tauri dev

sudo apt-get install -y libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev build-essential curl wget file libxdo-dev libssl-dev \
  libayatana-appindicator3-dev librsvg2-dev patchelf libasound2-dev libpipewire-0.3-dev clang libclang-dev

Production build:

pnpm tauri build --config '{"bundle":{"createUpdaterArtifacts":false}}'

Releases sign their updater artifacts with a private key only the maintainer holds, so a plain pnpm tauri build stops with “A public key has been found, but no private key”. The flag above turns those artifacts off for a local build and changes nothing else.

The courses, telegram and convert plugins live inside src-tauri/plugins/ and compile into the main binary. The plugin registry is omniget-plugins.

Stack: Tauri 2, Rust, SvelteKit with Svelte 5, SQLite, yt-dlp, FFmpeg, librqbit for torrents, whisper.cpp, aria2, gallery-dl.

Contributing and translations

Bug reports and pull requests go to Issues and Pull requests. Questions and quick help live on Telegram. Security inquiries and vulnerability reports: SECURITY.md or [email protected].

Translations are managed on Weblate. Pick your language and translate in the browser. New strings appear there a few hours after they land in main.

OmniGet is built on yt-dlp, FFmpeg, gallery-dl, whisper.cpp, aria2, SponsorBlock, Return YouTube Dislike, FxTwitter, Spicetify, cat-catch (parts of the extension’s media sniffer) and Tauri. Thank you to everyone who maintains them.

The penguin mascot is OmniGet’s project mascot. Community fan art is welcome. Project brand assets may not be used commercially or bundled into misleading third-party forks without permission.

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