Paste a link

Every download starts from one box at the top of Home: Paste a link or search. Paste a link and OmniGet checks it, shows a preview and gives you one button to download it.

Where it is

Home, the first item in the sidebar. The box is always in the middle of the page.

How to use it

1. Copy a link in your browser.
2. Click Paste at the right of the box, or click the box and press ⌘VCtrl+V.
3. Wait while OmniGet shows Checking link…. When it knows the site, it shows the site name and the kind of content (Video, Short, Playlist, Post…) under the box, and opens Download options with a preview.
4. Click the main button. Its label follows the content: Download video, Download audio, Download photo, or Download with a count for playlists and torrents.
5. OmniGet shows Added to Downloads. Click Open Downloads to follow it in the Queue.

You can also type and press ↩Enter, or click the arrow button (Download this link) that appears at the right when the box has text.

Drag and drop

Drag something onto the OmniGet window and it shows Drop to download with Links, torrent files or a .txt list.

• A link dragged from the browser goes into the box, as if you had pasted it.
• A .torrent file opens the file picker for that torrent. See Torrents and magnet links.
• A .txt file with one link per line becomes a batch. See Many links at once.
• Any other file shows OmniGet can’t open this file. Try a link, a torrent or a .txt list.

When you drop several files at once, only the first one is used.

The menu at the left of the box

The button at the left of the box (More ways to download) opens four more ways in:

Item	What it does
Paste many links…	Opens a .txt file with one link per line. See Many links at once.
Open a torrent file…	Picks a .torrent file. See Torrents and magnet links.
Send a file with a code…	Sends a file from your computer to another OmniGet user. See Send a file with a code.
yt-dlp command…	Opens a panel where you type the yt-dlp arguments yourself. See yt-dlp command.

What the box accepts

• Links that start with http:// or https://.
• Magnet links (magnet:…) and paths to .torrent files.
• Share codes from another OmniGet (p2p:…).
• Several links at once, separated by spaces or new lines. OmniGet shows how many it found and a Download all button.
• Anything else is treated as a search. See Search without a link.

When you paste a link, OmniGet removes common tracking parameters (such as utm_source or fbclid) and follows simple redirect links before it checks the site.

Options

Everything about the download itself lives under Quality and more, below the main button. See Quality, mode and formats.

Option	What it does	Default
Clipboard detection	Fills the box when you copy a link anywhere on your computer. In Settings › Downloads › Clipboard & hotkeys.	Off
Auto-download on paste	Starts the download by itself a moment after a link is detected. In Settings › Downloads › Clipboard & hotkeys.	Off

Shortcuts

Action	Keys
Paste into the box	⌘VCtrl+V
Check the link or start the download	↩Enter
Clear the box	escEsc

Messages you may see

These appear in the preview area while you prepare a download.

Message	What it means
This site’s saved cookie is getting old.	The login OmniGet keeps for this site may expire soon. Click Update it to open the cookie settings. See Accounts and cookies.
This site’s saved cookie has expired — downloads may fail.	The saved login no longer works. Capture it again with the browser extension.
This link changed since you last downloaded it: …	You downloaded this link before, and its title or length is different now. The download still starts.
Rule “…” applied	One of your Rules matched the link and changed the folder, the quality or the audio mode.
Link from your browser extension	The link came from the browser extension, not from you typing it.

Common problems

When a download cannot start, the box turns into a card with a plain sentence, a button that fixes the most likely cause and Try again. Open Details to see the raw error and Copy it for a bug report.

This one needs your login.

The site asks for an account (members-only, a video only you can see, or a login wall). Click Use my browser login to open Settings › Downloads › Cookies, then capture your login with the browser extension. Use only your own accounts.

This one is age-restricted.

Sign in on the site in your browser, confirm your age there, capture the cookies with the extension, and click Try again.

Not available in your region.

The site blocks the link where you are. OmniGet cannot change that. If you use a proxy for other reasons, see Proxy and network.

This link is gone.

The video was removed or made private. Click Paste another link.

The site asked us to slow down.

The site is limiting requests. Wait a few minutes, then click Try again.

Couldn’t reach the site.

Check your internet connection, then click Try again.

OmniGet can’t open this site yet.

yt-dlp has no extractor for this page. Click See supported sites to open the list, check the link, or see Sites and engines.

The video saved, but couldn’t be merged.

OmniGet needs FFmpeg to join the video and audio tracks. Click Install FFmpeg to open Settings, then install it in Settings › Advanced › Dependencies. See Dependencies.

Couldn’t download this.

Any other error. Click Try again. If it keeps failing, open Details, click Copy and include the text in your report. Troubleshooting lists the usual causes.

I typed an address and got search results

The box only treats text as a link when it starts with http:// or https:// (or is a magnet, a torrent or a share code). Copy the full address from the browser’s address bar.

The first download takes longer

The first time, OmniGet may need to set up its download engine. You see Setting up. The first download takes a bit longer. Later downloads start faster.