# GitHub · OmniGet Docs - URL: https://getomniget.com/docs/github - Updated: 2026-10-19 - OmniGet 1.0.0 > Free, open-source yt-dlp GUI for Windows, macOS and Linux. Paste a link to save video, audio and files from 1,000+ sites, or run AI coding agents. --- Superpowers # GitHub Note GitHub arrives in OmniGet 1.0.1. Version 1.0.0, the one you can download today, does not have it yet. The GitHub superpower follows repositories, activity, issues and people on GitHub. Unlike the other social clients it does not use the browser: it talks to GitHub’s public API, with only a username for reading or with your own token to act as your account. ## Where it is **Superpowers › GitHub › Open**. The card is always shown: there is no switch for it in **Settings › Integrations**. After you connect, the tabs on the left are **Feed**, **Search**, **My profile**, **Audience**, **Analytics** and **Monitor**. The **Token** button at the top reopens the connection screen. ## How to use it ### Connect GitHub The **Connect GitHub** screen gives two ways: 1. **Personal access token**: choose **Create a token on GitHub**, paste it in **Paste the token** and choose **Save token**. OmniGet checks it with GitHub before saving. With a token you act as your account and GitHub allows 5,000 requests an hour. 2. **Username (read only)**: type a username and choose **Use this username**. You can browse and search public data at 60 requests an hour, but not star, follow, comment or read notifications. The token is kept in this computer’s secure storage. Agents never see it and no tool takes it as an argument. **Remove the saved token** deletes it. Give the token only the permissions you need on GitHub, and revoke it there if you stop using OmniGet. ### Browse 1. Open **Feed** and pick **For you** (the activity GitHub shows your account) or **Trending**. 2. Open **Search**, type in the search box (for example `language:rust stars:>100`) and pick **Repositories**, **Issues and PRs** or **People**. GitHub’s search qualifiers work. 3. Click a repository, an issue or a person to open it. **Open in the browser** opens the same thing on GitHub. ## Feed, Search and profiles - A repository shows its language, stars and forks. With a token, the star button stars it or removes your star. - An issue or pull request opens with its comments. With a token you can write a comment. - A person or organization opens as a profile with the number of public repositories, and **Follow** or **Unfollow** when a token is saved. - **Trending** reads GitHub’s public trending page, which can change without notice. ## Audience **Audience** has two modes. **Your followers.** Choose **Sync**, then a view: **Don’t follow back**, **Unfollowed you**, **New followers**, **Fans**, **Mutuals**, **Followers**, **Following**, **Keep list**, **Hidden** or **Trend**. Search, **Filters**, **Quick filters** and **Export CSV** work as in the other networks. **Stargazers of a repository.** Type the repository as `owner/name`, or paste its GitHub link, and choose **Open**. **Sync** then reads who starred that repository instead of your followers, with three views: - **Stargazers**: accounts that starred this repository, as last read. - **New stars**: stars gained between two syncs. - **Un-starred**: accounts that removed their star, with the two syncs it happened between. The exact moment is not known. The list shows right away; new and removed stars appear from the second sync on. **Back to followers** leaves this mode. It works for any public repository, which is useful for your own projects. ## Analytics 1. Leave **Account** empty for your own account, or type another user or organization. 2. Choose **Analyze**, then a report: **Summary**, **Posts**, **Best times**, **Trend**, **Repositories** or **Compare**. On GitHub the reports count public events. **Best times** shows events by weekday and hour. **Repositories** lists public repositories with **Stars**, **Forks**, **Open issues**, **Last push** and **Language**, and the totals on top; open issues include open pull requests. **Compare** takes up to 4 other accounts. **Export CSV** saves the report. GitHub’s API only returns recent public events, so older activity is listed under **What a browser session cannot see** and is not estimated. ## Monitor 1. Choose **New monitor** and pick **What to monitor**: **Repository search**, **Issue and PR search**, **Releases of a repository** or **Issues of a repository**. 2. Type the search with qualifiers, such as `is:pr is:open repo:owner/name`, or the repository as `owner/name`, and choose **Save**. 3. Choose **Check now** or **Check all now**, then read what was found, with **Unread only** and **Mark all read**. With a token saved, **Notifications** shows your GitHub notifications as an inbox. You can keep up to 50 monitors. **Check automatically** can be **Off** or every 5, 15, 30 or 60 minutes, and checks run only while this tab is open or when an agent asks for one. Each check spends requests from your hourly allowance. ## For AI agents Agents connected through the [MCP server](https://getomniget.com/docs/mcp-server) get the `gh_*` tools plus the shared `social_*` tools. `social_status` tells them whether GitHub is connected by token, by username or not at all. - Reading: `gh_me`, `gh_user`, `gh_feed`, `gh_user_posts`, `gh_repos`, `gh_repo`, `gh_search`, `gh_issues`, `gh_releases`, `gh_forks`, `gh_stargazers`, `gh_followers`, `gh_following`, `gh_trending`, `gh_notifications` (token), the audience views and `gh_analytics`. - Acting, only with a saved token: `gh_star`, `gh_watch`, `gh_follow`, `gh_comment` and `gh_issue_create`. If you turned on **Ask me first** (under **What other programs can do** in **Settings › AI & agents**), each action waits in the OmniGet window with **Approve** and **Deny**. A request expires after 5 minutes and a denial is final for the agent. With or without it, agents are held to 20 actions on GitHub every 10 minutes, at least 4 seconds apart. Issue text, comments and READMEs are outside content, which agents should treat as untrusted. ## Common problems ### Requests stop with a rate limit message Without a token GitHub allows 60 requests an hour, and a sync of a large repository’s stargazers can use them up. The message says when the limit resets. Save a token for the higher limit, or wait. ### Star, follow and comment are missing Those need a token. Choose **Token** at the top and save one. ### The token is refused OmniGet checks the token with GitHub before saving it. Create a new one with **Create a token on GitHub**, copy it whole and check that it has not expired. ### “Type the repository as owner/name or paste its GitHub link.” The stargazers box needs both parts, for example the owner and the repository name separated by a slash. ### Trending is empty **Trending** reads a public page that GitHub changes from time to time. Update OmniGet when a new version is out. [Previous**← Pinterest**](https://getomniget.com/docs/pinterest) [Next**Research →**](https://getomniget.com/docs/research)