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.
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
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+Enterextract ·Ctrl+Shift+Ccopy ·Esccancel ·F11fullscreen - Drag & drop — drop a URL,
.htmlfile, 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
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, andcontent_json
API
- New endpoint:
POST /extract/stream— Server-Sent Events withprogress,complete, anderrorevents
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.
Verify downloads
# Windows
powershell -File scripts\generate-sha256.ps1 -Release# macOS / Linux
./scripts/generate-sha256.sh --releaseCompare against SHA256-release-v1.6.0.txt. See docs/TRUST.md for VirusTotal notes.
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/streamis optional for clients that want progress events
What's next
See the product roadmap — v1.7 targets batch queue, resizable panels, response cache, and full backend cancellation.
Full changelog: CHANGELOG.md