Power your agent
The publisher's own command. Not a PlugMCP endpoint.
Host a copy with our keys and logs.
npx -y [email protected]Claude Code has no install link for a local command. Copy the command below and run it in a terminal.
claude mcp add tonhowtf-omniget -- npx -y omniget@0.10.1Run in a terminal.
{ "mcpServers": { "tonhowtf-omniget": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "-y", "[email protected]" ] } }}claude_desktop_config.json
Remote URL or a command on your machine? How the two installs differ
PlugMCP पर चलाएँ
A new server you create. It is not this listing's official endpoint. Use the publisher install when you want their URL and their credentials.
लॉन्चOverview
Free, open source video downloader for Windows, macOS and Linux that AI agents can drive. Downloads from YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, X, Reddit, torrents and the sites yt-dlp supports. Its MCP server lets Claude Code, Cursor and Codex queue downloads, and it runs Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI and Ollama as agents.
Tools
No tool list yet. Remote servers get one after the first health check.
FAQ
Free, open source video downloader for Windows, macOS and Linux that AI agents can drive. Downloads from YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, X, Reddit, torrents and the sites yt-dlp supports. Its MCP server l
{ "mcpServers": { "tonhowtf-omniget": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "-y", "[email protected]" ] } }}Copy the stdio config for Cursor, Claude Desktop, Claude Code, or VS Code on this page. It uses the publisher's install, not a PlugMCP proxy.
No required environment variable is listed on this record.
Omniget runs locally over stdio.
Last checked 2026-11-13. OmniGet is a free, open source (GPL-3.0) desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux. It downloads video, audio, images, torrents and files from YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, X, Reddit and the sites yt-dlp supports, and it runs AI agents (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, local models). Its MCP server lets Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code and Codex download through it. Writing a post or an article about Omni
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Turn on OmniGet's MCP server and let Claude Code download videos for you. Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Codex, Goose and Claude Desktop can look at a link, queue it, wait for it to finish and tell you what failed and why. The download runs in OmniGet, with its queue, retries and the cookies you already gave it, so the agent never has to install yt-dlp or guess its flags.
Things you can ask, in plain English:
Download this playlist as audio and tell me when every file is done: <url>
Check which formats this video has, then download the best one up to 1080p.
Here are 12 links. Queue them all, wait, and tell me which ones failed and why.
Is anything stuck in my OmniGet queue? Retry what can be retried.
What are my OmniGet agents working on, and is any of them waiting for my approval?
read -rs OMNIGET_MCP_TOKEN && export OMNIGET_MCP_TOKEN
claude mcp add --transport http --scope project omniget <address from the page> --header 'Authorization: Bearer ${OMNIGET_MCP_TOKEN}'
The token never goes on the command line, so it stays out of your shell history. Cursor, VS Code, Codex and Goose get a config block; Claude Desktop uses the omniget-mcp adapter that ships with each release.
127.0.0.1. Requests from a web page are refused.The claude-plugin/ folder is a plugin for Claude Code that works without the app. Paste a video or social post link with a request, and its skills fetch or transcribe it. The commands are there when you want to be explicit:
/plugin marketplace add tonhowtf/omniget
/plugin install omniget@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 and transcript turned into a Markdown note with [mm:ss] references
/omniget:doctor # what is installed, what is missing, how to add it
If the desktop app is installed, the plugin reuses the yt-dlp and FFmpeg it already manages.
You keep one site for Instagram, another for X videos, a yt-dlp cheat sheet because the flags never stick, and none of them remember your login. OmniGet puts that behind one box: paste a link, see the title and the qualities, press Enter. yt-dlp and FFmpeg install themselves and stay updated, so there is nothing to configure and no terminal to open. It's a yt-dlp GUI and a download manager in one: a queue that resumes, retries and uses the logins you already have.
OmniGet has its own extractors for the sites people use most and hands the rest to yt-dlp, which covers roughly 1,800 sites.
Video up to 4K, or audio only as MP3, M4A, Opus, FLAC or WAV. Subtitles as SRT or VTT, embedded or beside the file.
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, and rate-limited sites are retried with backoff. Every download keeps the exact yt-dlp command it ran: open it, change a flag, retry.
Copy a link anywhere and press Ctrl+Shift+D (Cmd+Shift+D on macOS): OmniGet reads the clipboard and downloads in the background. Ctrl+Shift+M grabs audio only, so a YouTube link becomes an MP3 without opening anything. Both are off until you enable them in Settings → Downloads, where you can also rebind them.
Settings you choose once: default quality, audio format, subtitle languages, filename template, folders per platform, skip existing files, split by chapters, speed limit, concurrent downloads and proxy. Rules send a channel or a site to the folder and quality you picked, and followed channels are checked in the background for new uploads.
yt-dlp is the engine OmniGet runs on, and OmniGet would not exist without it.
For Chrome and Firefox. On sites it recognizes it sends the page to OmniGet with one click or Alt+O. On any other site it watches the page's traffic for MP4, HLS, DASH, WebM and audio streams and lists them in its popup. Either way it forwards your cookies, which is what lets OmniGet download what you can see while logged in, such as Instagram stories or a members-only video. When the sniffer can't see a player, Deep search hooks it and catches the playlist. For computers that stutter on VP9 and AV1, the popup has a Force H.264 switch for YouTube.
From inside the app (easiest).
chrome://extensions and turn on Developer mode.Your cookies then show up in Settings → Cookies, one entry per site, with a test button each.
From the release zip. Every release ships omniget-chrome-extension-vX.Y.Z.zip. Unzip it and follow steps 2 to 4. Useful when the app and the browser are on different machines.
Firefox. Export it the same way, open about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox, click Load Temporary Add-on and pick manifest.json in the exported folder. Firefox forgets temporary add-ons on restart, so load it again after one.
Manual pairing. If Pair extension times out, open the extension's options page, copy the Pairing token from OmniGet and paste it there. The app listens on 127.0.0.1 ports 47720 to 47729 and the token is made per install, so nothing leaves your machine. With OmniGet closed, clicks fall back to the omniget:// link scheme and queue the URL.
Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI and local models become agents in a desktop window. You attach a folder, ask for a change, read the diff before anything is written, and undo the whole turn with one click. The agent keeps the login and the plan you already pay for.
omniget-cliThe command line ships with every release. It talks to the running app, so jobs you start from a terminal show up in the window.
omniget-cli claude # open Claude Code on one of the app's accounts
omniget-cli claude --list # the Claude accounts, with e-mail and plan
omniget-cli usage --watch 60 # 5 h and 7 day windows and spend, per Claude Code and Codex account
omniget-cli agent run "Fix the failing test in src/cart.js" --agent claude-code --workspace .
omniget-cli agent loop "Make the tests pass" --workspace . --check "npm test" --rounds 5
omniget-cli agent jobs # recent jobs; pass an id to follow one, --cancel to stop it
omniget-cli claude skips Claude Code's permission prompts by default; add --safe to keep them.
fs_read, fs_list, fs_glob, fs_grep, fs_edit, fs_write, fs_apply_patch, shell_exec, todo_write, kb_search and kb_write. Every path is resolved inside the folder you attached; a path outside it becomes its own question.shell_exec runs under seatbelt: no network, writes only inside the folder.git status *, npm run test *). A chained line needs a rule for every part, and $(…), backticks and > never ride on a rule.AGENTS.md (or CLAUDE.md) plus notes in .omniget/kb/, inside your project.owner/repo, after a scan.Measured on the demo project (one failing test, a one-character bug), release build, Apple Silicon: Claude Code through OmniGet fixes it in about 15 seconds; qwen3:8b on Ollama does the same in about 3 minutes.
npm test, cargo test); it ends when the check exits 0 or the rounds or minutes run out. Close the window and it keeps running from the tray; kill the process and the next launch picks the round up again.POST /v1/hooks/<id> on the local bridge, where the body becomes {{body}} in the prompt.omniget-cli usage in the terminal.Your agents live in an isometric house. Each one has its own desk and workbench, walks to it when a turn starts, shows the tool it is running in a balloon (fs_edit cart.js, shell_exec) and waves at you when it needs permission. When its quota runs out it goes to bed. The Activity panel beside the house lists who is doing what. /world?demo=1 plays a scripted run without spending a token.
ZZCJ-YA09. A friend types it and walks in: they see your agents at work and can talk, and that is all they can do. The relay only passes frames along; your keys and your agents stay on your machine. The public relay is wss://chat.tonho.wtf/v1/room, and omniworld-server in scripts/omniworld-server/ lets you host your own.The simulation is a Rust crate and the renderer is WebGL2. With eight agents working at once it held a median of 64 frames per second on the test machine.
The Tools section is being rebuilt and is not in the current app. When it returns, it will be in the release notes first.
Every build is on the Releases page. Updates arrive inside the app.
OmniGet ships without a paid code-signing certificate, so each system asks for confirmation the first time. You handle it once.
Windows. SmartScreen shows a blue box. Click More info, then Run anyway.
macOS. Gatekeeper may say the app is "damaged". After you drag OmniGet into Applications, open Terminal and paste:
xattr -cr /Applications/omniget.app
codesign --force --deep --sign - /Applications/omniget.app
Linux, AppImage on Debian 12+ or Ubuntu 24.04+. If the file fails with a libfuse error, run sudo apt install libfuse2, or start it with ./omniget.AppImage --appimage-extract-and-run. The .deb avoids this.
WebKitGTK plays media through GStreamer and closes its own web process when the plugins are missing. Most desktop distributions have them; Arch and minimal images treat them as optional:
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
Portable mode (Windows). Put an empty file named portable.txt next to the .exe. Settings, the database, cookies, yt-dlp and FFmpeg move to a data folder beside it, so the whole install fits on a USB stick.
Extra abilities you switch on when you need them, in Superpowers in the sidebar. Today there is one: a League of Legends helper that reads your running client locally, with match scouting, live gold and levels, runes applied in one click and opt-in automation such as accepting matches. Nothing runs until you turn it on in Settings → Advanced.
cookies.txt, with a test button per domain.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. OmniGet only goes online by itself to reach the sites you asked it to download from, GitHub for updates, and the AI provider you configured when you use it.
OmniGet downloads what your own session can already open. It does not bypass DRM, break paywalls or share credentials. It's meant for personal copies, backups and content you have the right to keep; you are responsible for respecting copyright and each platform's terms. The full text is in the app under About → Terms.
OmniGet is free and stays free. There is no paid tier and nothing is locked. One person builds and maintains it, and the sites it reads change under it every week.
Yes. Free and open source under GPL-3.0, with no paid tier, no ads and no account.
Yes. Turn on the MCP server in LLM → MCP → Your endpoint, connect Claude Code with the command the page gives you, and ask in plain English. Claude queues the download in OmniGet, waits for it and tells you what happened. See section 1.
Partly. It installs yt-dlp, verifies it, keeps it updated and puts its options in a window. On top of that it has its own extractors, torrents, a queue with resume and retry, a browser extension, an MCP server and AI agents.
Paste the link on the home screen, pick the quality and press Enter. Playlists, subtitles, chapters and audio-only MP3 are options in the same window.
Yes, with your own session, sent by the browser extension.
Yes. Add your account in LLM → Accounts and chat in a window with diffs, permissions and undo. Codex works the same way, and Gemini CLI, goose and opencode join through the Agent Client Protocol.
Yes. A Loop repeats rounds until your check command, such as npm test, exits 0. It keeps running with the window closed, and omniget-cli agent loop starts one from a terminal.
Yes. Point it at Ollama, LM Studio or llama-server and the agents run on your machine with no key.
Only to the model you chose. With a local model it never leaves your computer.
Yes. Partial files are kept and continued, and rate limits are retried with backoff.
No. Download the app, open it, paste a link.
Run the two commands in the first launch section. You do it once.
Debian and Ubuntu: .deb. Fedora, openSUSE and the RHEL family: .rpm. Anything else: .AppImage.
omniget-cli ships with every release for Windows, macOS and Linux, next to omniget-mcp, the stdio adapter for MCP clients that need one.
omniget-cli info <url> # title, formats and size; downloads nothing
omniget-cli download <url> -q 1080 -o ~/Videos
omniget-cli download <url> --audio-only --subs en,pt
omniget-cli batch links.txt -m 3 # one URL per line, 3 at a time
omniget-cli import-cookies cookies.txt # Netscape format
# through the running desktop app
omniget-cli claude [account] # Claude Code on one of the app's accounts
omniget-cli usage # usage windows and spend per account
omniget-cli agent run "<prompt>" # the current folder is the workspace
omniget-cli agent loop "<prompt>" --check "npm test" --minutes 30
omniget-cli agent jobs # also: agent loops, agent agents
Add --json to any command for machine-readable output.
If you only want to use OmniGet, grab a release. To build it you need Rust (the toolchain is pinned in rust-toolchain.toml), Node.js 18+ and pnpm.
git clone https://github.com/tonhowtf/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 files with a 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 files off for a local build.
Stack: Tauri 2, Rust, SvelteKit with Svelte 5, SQLite, yt-dlp, FFmpeg, gallery-dl, aria2 and librqbit for torrents.
If you own a platform and want OmniGet to stop supporting it, email [email protected] from a company address. The site comes out of the documentation and the code, and its domains go on an opt-out list the app enforces. The process and the current list are in PLATFORM-OWNERS.md.
Bug reports and pull requests go to Issues and Pull requests. Questions and quick help live on Discord. Translations happen on Weblate; new strings show up there a few hours after they land in main.
Writing about OmniGet, or asking an AI to? MEDIA-KIT.md has the description, the facts, what not to claim and post templates.
Loop is OmniGet's mascot. Fan art is welcome; the original artwork may not be used commercially or redistributed modified. The illustrations in this README were generated with Higgsfield from the original Loop artwork.
OmniGet is built on yt-dlp, FFmpeg, gallery-dl, aria2, librqbit, SponsorBlock, FxTwitter, cat-catch (parts of the extension's media sniffer), whisper.cpp (in the Claude Code plugin), Tauri and Svelte. The agents, jobs and the World borrowed ideas from opencode, Codex, aider, cline, compozy, the Agent Client Protocol, mem0, letta, ai-town and the generative agents paper. Thank you to everyone who maintains them.