AXaxiomdata316·May 3, 2026Submission
Open source desktop app for studying online courses
3 points · Open discussiontonhowtf
omniget
Rust2026–2026
tonhowtf / omniget
omniget
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.
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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.
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| Feb 16 | 2026-02-16 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-02-23 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Feb 23 | 2026-02-23 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-03-02 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mar 2 | 2026-03-02 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-03-09 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| Apr 27 | 2026-04-27 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-05-04 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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3 sourcesI've received several of these types of messages including Voice.ai one mentioned in comments, and the following today:
Tonho<tonho@tonho.wtf>
Hey, I found your GitHub profile and thought you might find this useful.
I've been building Omniget, a desktop downloader that works with YouTube, Telegram, Udemy, Hotmart and 1000+ other sites. It's open source and built with Rust and Tauri.
The part I'm most proud of: you don't even need to open the app. Just press a hotkey and it grabs whatever video you're watching.
I've been working on this for a while now, even got an artist to design a mascot. I'm shaping the app based on feedback from people who actually use it, so if you have any thoughts I'd love to hear them.
Here's the repo: https://github.com/tonhowtf/omniget
Thanks for your time!
Tonho
In Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to usersShow HN: Omniget, a Desktop Media Downloader
I started learning to code last year and one of the things I always loved was downloading stuff from the internet. Figuring out how players serve their streams, messing with scrapers, all of that. During carnival I had a lot of free time and decided to build something I could share.
Omniget is a desktop app (Tauri, Rust + Svelte) for downloading media from YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, Reddit, Twitch, Pinterest, Bluesky, Vimeo, Telegram, Hotmart, and now Udemy. Inspired by cobalt.tools but as a native app with course platform support and a download queue.
The Udemy integration just shipped and was the most interesting part to build. Their login is passwordless now, so the app opens a WebView, injects JS to fill the email field, waits for the user to enter the 6-digit code from their inbox, then extracts cookies. On Windows this use
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s the WebView2 COM cookie API, on Linux/macOS I had to use a hack where I eval a JS redirect to a fake URL with document.cookie as a query param and intercept it in the navigation handler.
The app also has its own HLS downloader (m3u8 parsing, parallel TS segment downloads, AES-128-CBC decryption) so most non-DRM content downloads without needing ffmpeg. Each platform lives in its own isolated module with no shared auth state, which meant some code duplication but made things way easier to maintain.
GPL-3.0 licensed. Will always be free and open source, no plans to monetize. Would appreciate any feedback.