OmniGet Quickstart Guide

Download online courses, video, audio, image galleries and torrents from 1,800+ sites, then read, transcribe and study what you saved. Windows, macOS and Linux.

OmniGet Desktop: Paste a link, magnet, or course URL to inspect qualities, audio streams, and start downloading.

OmniGet is a free, open-source desktop app (GPL-3.0) for Windows, macOS and Linux. It downloads from 1,800+ sites, with native extractors for paid courses and social platforms, an offline study library, and a local Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that AI agents can drive.

1. Quickstart & First Download Walkthrough

OmniGet sets itself up on first launch:

1. Automatic Engine Verification: On initial launch, OmniGet asks for your preferred language and theme, then verifies or fetches yt-dlp and FFmpeg against strict cryptographic SHA-256 checksums before anything executes. If Python 3.10+ is detected on your system, yt-dlp runs as a zipapp, starting in under one second.
2. Paste Any Link: Copy any media URL to your clipboard (a YouTube video, Instagram reel, TikTok post, X thread, Pinterest board, Bilibili series, magnet link, or .torrent file). Paste it into the main input box. (For enrolled e-learning courses, navigate to the dedicated Courses workspace with your active login session).
3. Inspect Streams & Choose Quality: OmniGet probes the destination server and renders available streams: choose from 4K HDR, 1080p60, AV1/VP9/H.264, or extract pure audio directly as MP3, M4A, Opus, or lossless FLAC.
4. Download and watch: the Downloads panel shows live speed, phase and ETA. Interrupted downloads resume where they stopped, and rate-limited sites are retried with backoff.

OmniGet Downloads Manager: live speed, phase and ETA, plus the exact yt-dlp command each download ran.

2. Global Hotkeys & Background Capture

You don't need to keep the OmniGet window in the foreground. Once enabled in Settings → Downloads → Clipboard & hotkeys, system-wide keyboard shortcuts trigger instant background downloads:

Global hotkey setup: Configure custom key bindings for instant background clipboard capture and audio conversion.

3. Technical Comparison Matrix

How OmniGet compares against raw command-line tools, single-site web downloaders, and paid commercial course downloaders:

4. Supported Media Engines & 1,800+ Sites

OmniGet uses native extractors for the platforms that need a login, and yt-dlp for everything else:

• Online courses (36 platforms): Hotmart, Udemy, Kiwify, Skool, Gumroad, Rocketseat, Teachable, Kajabi, Thinkific, Pluralsight, The Great Courses (Wondrium), MasterClass, MemberKit, Cakto, Curseduca, Data Science Academy, Estratégia Concursos, Gran Cursos Online, Fluency Academy, Eduzz Nutror, and more. Keeps the course structure and downloads attachments.
• Video & Audio Streaming: YouTube (videos, playlists, channels, SponsorBlock skip, Return YouTube Dislike, live streams from start, Force H.264 switch), TikTok, Instagram, X, Reddit, Twitch (VODs, clips, live), Vimeo, Bluesky, Threads, Douyin.
• Bilibili (Authenticated Hi-Fi): 4K, HDR, Dolby Vision, Dolby Atmos, and Hi-Res lossless audio via your VIP session. Exports danmaku comments as XML/ASS and generates Kodi/Jellyfin NFO metadata.
• Image Galleries (250+ Sites): Full artist profile and gallery downloads via gallery-dl integration (Pixiv, DeviantArt, ArtStation, Flickr, Tumblr, Kemono, Imgur).
• Torrents & P2P Transfer: Built-in BitTorrent client powered by librqbit handles .torrent files and magnet links. Direct peer-to-peer computer transfer with short word codes.
• Telegram Channel Archiver: The embedded OmniGram plugin downloads photos, videos, audio, and documents from any group you belong to into structured folders (OmniGram/<channel>/).

How OmniGet works: each link goes to a native extractor or yt-dlp, streams are downloaded and merged locally, and the result is filed in your library.

5. Study & Offline Workspace

Downloading is only the start. The built-in Study module finishes what you download:

The Study ecosystem: Course video player, EPUB/PDF reader, Anki-compatible flashcard decks, and Pomodoro focus timer.

6. The 158 Offline Tools Hub

OmniGet bundles 158 tools across 25 categories. Each tool is one Rust command, JSON in and JSON out:

The 158 Tools Hub: Fast multilingual search, platform filtering, and native offline execution.

• Speech & Subtitles: Offline whisper.cpp transcription, Microsoft Edge neural TTS, subtitle translation, and bilingual subtitle merging.
• Video Editing: Lossless video trimming, two-pass target size compression (e.g. 10MB Discord limits), video-to-GIF, silence cutting, video stabilization.
• PDF & Documents: Merge, split, compress, repair corrupted PDFs, Bates-numbering, redaction verification, and PDF-to-Markdown conversion for LLMs.
• Images: Vulkan GPU upscaling (Real-ESRGAN), batch resizing, duplicate photo detection, screenshot stitching, and spritesheet slicing.
• System & Privacy: Cache cleaner, disk treemap analyzer, hosts file ad-blocking, Windows privacy hardening, and duplicate file hash finder.
• CTF & Cryptography: Hash & HMAC identification, file entropy analysis, Caesar/Vigenère/XOR cracking, and base64/hex multi-decoders.

Press Ctrl + K (or Cmd + K on macOS) anywhere in the app to open the command palette, search, and run any tool.

7. Privacy Policy & No Tracking

OmniGet is an offline-first desktop app. It runs locally on your workstation with no user accounts, no cloud backend, and no central servers collecting your activity.

Local machine boundary: Downloads, database records, and session tokens remain on your computer.

No Telemetry & Analytics

The app has no analytics, crash reporters, or usage trackers. When you paste a link, search for streams, or run a download, nothing is reported back:

• No telemetry or heartbeat requests.
• No URL logging: links, video titles, and download paths stay on your machine.
• No analytics SDKs: built without Google Analytics, Sentry, Firebase, Mixpanel, Datadog, or PostHog.
• No ads, sponsored links, or hidden cryptominers.

Local Storage & User Data Ownership

All settings and download records are saved directly to your operating system's standard application directory:

Within these paths, OmniGet maintains:

• omniget.db: SQLite database storing download history, file paths, media titles, custom tags, and notes.
• settings.json: Configuration preferences (download directories, concurrent stream limits, speed limits, theme).
• cache/: Temporary thumbnail previews and active download fragments.

Data Deletion: You can clear your download history in the app, or by deleting the omniget.db file from disk while OmniGet is closed.

Direct Downloads (No Proxy Relays)

When downloading or inspecting media, connections go directly between your computer and the media host's CDN (such as YouTube, Vimeo, Instagram, TikTok, or course servers). OpenSelena runs no proxy servers, relays, or stream reflectors. The destination servers receive your IP address and standard HTTP request headers, similar to opening the page in a browser.

Browser Extension & Session Cookies

The companion extension communicates with OmniGet Desktop strictly over local loopback (http://127.0.0.1:47720 to 47729). It never connects to the internet. Handshakes require a local session token from the running desktop app. Forwarded session cookies are encrypted locally on disk and used only by native extractors. They are never sent to external servers.

Local MCP Server Security

The built-in MCP server binds strictly to 127.0.0.1. It rejects connections from outside your machine. Local AI tools (Claude Desktop, Cursor, local LLMs) interact with tools directly on your computer without sending prompts or transcripts to OpenSelena.

DRM Policy

OmniGet does not crack, decrypt, or bypass DRM protections like Widevine, FairPlay, or PlayReady. When an encrypted stream is detected, OmniGet stops extraction and skips the stream.

Outbound Network Request Matrix

The following table details every outbound network request that OmniGet can initiate:

Open Source Verification

OmniGet is licensed under GPL-3.0. The full source code is public on GitHub. You can inspect all network and database code directly, or verify that the app sends no telemetry by monitoring network traffic with Wireshark, Fiddler, or mitmproxy.

Code signing policy

Free code signing provided by SignPath.io, certificate by SignPath Foundation. Code changes and signed releases are reviewed and approved by the OpenSelena maintainers.

8. omniget-cli Command Reference

Every release includes the headless omniget-cli binary for terminal workflows, automated scripts, and CI runners:

# Download video or audio:

omniget-cli download "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=..." --audio-only

# Preview what a URL offers without downloading:

omniget-cli info "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=..."

# Download a list of URLs from a file:

omniget-cli batch ./urls.txt --max-concurrent 3 --output ~/Downloads

# Import a cookies.txt file (Netscape format):

omniget-cli import-cookies ./cookies.txt --name firefox

9. Whisper Model Management & Speech Studio

OmniGet's Speech & Subtitles engine bundles whisper.cpp for local GPU/CPU speech-to-text. Models are stored in %APPDATA%\OmniGet\models\ on Windows and ~/.config/OmniGet/models/ on macOS/Linux:

10. Official Release Notes & Changelog

Track every update and bugfix shipped in OmniGet. OmniGet follows Semantic Versioning and publishes signed artifacts with SHA-256 checksums for every desktop release.