OmniPars v1.6.0

OmniParse v1.6.0 — Workflow & Speed

Turn any URL or HTML into clean Markdown, JSON, or Text — faster, clearer, and easier to repeat.

This release focuses on daily extraction workflow and real performance gains, plus native installers for macOS and Linux.

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Highlights

• One-click presets — Fast, Standard, or Deep Gallery instead of juggling toggles
• Live progress — see what the app is doing during long extracts (fetch → render → resolve images)
• Extraction history — last 50 runs saved locally, re-run with one click
• Markdown preview — toggle Raw / Rendered in the Content tab
• Cross-platform desktop — Windows, macOS (Apple Silicon), and Linux builds from CI
• Faster browser work — pooled Chrome/Edge session reuse + parallel bulk image downloads

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UI / UX

• Extraction presets — Fast / Standard / Deep Gallery profiles
• History panel — local re-run for recent extractions
• SSE progress bar — stage updates during fetch, JS render, lightbox crawl, and deep gallery
• Rendered markdown preview — read output like an article, not just raw text
• Extraction stats — word count, image/file counts, elapsed time
• Keyboard shortcuts — Ctrl+Enter extract · Ctrl+Shift+C copy · Esc cancel · F11 fullscreen
• Drag & drop — drop a URL, .html file, or pasted HTML into the workspace
• Custom title bar — frameless window with app-themed chrome (Tauri desktop)
• Format switching — change MD / JSON / TXT preview without re-extracting
• Virtualized preview — smooth scrolling on large payloads

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Performance

• Browser session pool — reuse Chrome/Edge between requests (120s idle timeout)
• Parallel image downloads — save all images with up to 5 concurrent downloads
• Full API payload — every extract returns content_markdown, content_text, and content_json

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API

• New endpoint: POST /extract/stream — Server-Sent Events with progress, complete, and error events

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Downloads

Platform	Artifacts
Windows	Portable omniparse.exe · NSIS setup · MSI
macOS	.dmg (Apple Silicon)
Linux	.deb · .AppImage (x86_64)

No Rust, Node, or manual setup required — run the installer and the embedded API starts on 127.0.0.1:8000.

Note: JavaScript rendering and full-size image resolution still need Chrome, Edge, or Chromium installed locally.

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Verify downloads

# Windows
powershell -File scripts\generate-sha256.ps1 -Release

# macOS / Linux
./scripts/generate-sha256.sh --release

Compare against SHA256-release-v1.6.0.txt. See docs/TRUST.md for VirusTotal notes.

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Upgrade from v1.5.0

• Settings in %LOCALAPPDATA%\OmniParse\.env (Windows) are preserved
• No breaking API changes for /extract — existing integrations keep working
• New /extract/stream is optional for clients that want progress events

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What's next

See the product roadmap — v1.7 targets batch queue, resizable panels, response cache, and full backend cancellation.

Full changelog: CHANGELOG.md

OmniPars v1.5.0

v1.5.0 — Improved Rendering & Extraction Engine

Added

• JavaScript-powered page rendering for dynamic websites
• Enhanced DOM parsing with deeper element traversal
• Smart content prioritization for higher-quality extraction

Improved

• Faster crawl performance (~30% speed boost)
• Better handling of lazy-loaded content
• Reduced memory usage during large crawls

Notes

See full changelog in CHANGELOG.md