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Venom is a popular Kodi add-on that allows you to stream movies and TV shows using premium sources. Venom has many features like Trakt.tv support, library integration, Youtube section, Debrid cloud manager, and more.
You’ll need a premium account from Real Debrid, All Debrid, or Premiumize for Venom to work properly. This add-on uses FenomScrapers, an external scraper package also used by other add-ons like Fen.
Venom is compatible with Kodi 19 Matrix and Kodi 18 Leia. In this guide, we’re going to install Venom on Kodi and we’ll also set up Real Debrid. Let’s begin!
Table of contents
If this is the first time you install add-ons on Kodi, you’ll have to allow the installation of unofficial add-ons. Please read How to allow 3rd-party add-ons on Kodi and come back here when you’re ready.
Adding Venom source to Kodi
Let’s begin by adding a link to the official source on 123venom’s Github page, this will allow us to download the repository zip file directly on Kodi.
1. Press the cog icon near the top left corner of the screen to open the Settings menu.
2. Select File Manager.
3. Press Add source. 
4. Write https://123venom.github.io/ on the top box and venom on the bottom one. Press OK to add the source. 
Installing Venom repository
The repository is responsible for installing and updating the add-on, let’s use the new source to download the repository.
5. Go back to the Settings menu and this time select Add-ons. 
6. Click on Install from zip file. 
On Kodi 19, you’ll see a message about the auto-update feature. Press Yes to proceed.
7. Now select venom. 
8. Click on repository.venom-x.x.zip to download and install the repository. 
Installing Venom add-on
Now we’ll use the repository to install Venom add-on and its dependencies on Kodi.
9. Select Install from repository. 
10. Click on Venom Repo.
11. Select Video add-ons.
12. Now select Venom.
13. Press the Install button.
14. You’ll see a list of dependencies to be installed along with the add-on. Press OK to continue and wait until the process is finished.
If the Youtube set-up wizard comes up just press No to continue.
15. Go back to the Home Screen, you’ll see a shortcut to Venom on the Add-ons tab.
Venom is now installed on Kodi but you still need to authorize your Debrid account so the addon can find sources and stream content.
Authorizing Real Debrid with Venom
Using premium accounts gives you unrestricted access to several file hosters and cached-torrents. It greatly improves the speed, quantity, and quality of available sources.
In this tutorial we’ll use Real Debrid, a popular service to get access to various file hosters and cached torrents for a very low price.
16. Select My Accounts.
17. Select the Debrid Accounts tab and click on Authorize under Real-Debrid.
18. Copy the authorization code. 
19. Use a web browser to visit https://real-debrid.com/device and enter the authorization code. (You must be logged in to your Real Debrid account). 
20. Set a name for this connection, we’ll write Venom. Press Set that name to continue. 
21. Go back to Kodi. You should now see your user name in the Real Debrid section. Press OK to continue. 
All done! Now you’re ready to stream content on Kodi with Venom. Use Venom’s main menu to search for movies or TV shows.
If Venom doesn’t return any results after authorizing Real Debrid, try enabling premium scrapers on FenomScrapers. Open FenomScrapers Module > Select Premium Hosters > Press Enable all Hoster Providers and Press OK.
When using cached torrents, your device won’t connect to the p2p network directly, instead, Real Debrid will fetch the files on their servers and it’ll let you get them as a normal download.
If you want to use subtitles with Venom please read How to enable automatic subtitles on Kodi.
Venom Kodi addon features
- Kodi 19 Matrix and Kodi 18 Leia Compatible
- Premium sources with Real Debrid, All Debrid and Premiumize
- Trakt Integration
- Library integration
- Youtube section
- Debrid cloud manager
- Context menu with useful features
- Main Menu structure
- Discover Movies
- Discover TV Shows
- My Movies
- My TV Shows
- Youtube Videos
- Search
- Tools
- Premium Services
- News and Info
- Change Log
Venom Kodi add-on FAQ
Yes. Venom has dropped support for free sources since the September 2020 update.
No. When using a Debrid account your traffic is already encrypted using HTTPS.
First, make sure your Debrid account is authorized and it hasn’t expired. Then, try clearing Venom’s cache. Follow these steps:
1. Select Tools on Venom’s main menu.
2. Select Cache Options.
3. Press Clear all caches.
4. Confirm by pressing Yes.
5. Restart Kodi.
Yes. Cached torrents files are downloaded by your Debrid service provider using their servers. These files are then stored on their servers so you can access them as a normal download using HTTPS which is an encrypted protocol. Since you’re using the Debrid’s server as a proxy, your IP address is not exposed to the P2P network.
More info:
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Thanks, everything is working fine. But i hate the thumbnail – icon of this add on. Can you please tell me how to change it?
I’ve just followed all to install, I’ve deleted all caches, I’ve just registered a Debrid account, but I’m getting always the message “permission-denied” and “unknown_resource”
Hi, I reinstalled Venom on Windows and Android a couple of times, but I couldn’t reproduce the error.
I also checked the source code to see if I could get some insights on the problem but those error messages are not hardcoded on Venom nor MyAccounts so they are probably coming directly from the Debrid service.
It seems like maybe an error occurred when authorizing your account. Could you please try to re-authorize your account and report back?
Thanx for fast answering. Well I’ve just seen that I should buy the real debrid service to use it, I was supposed to use it for free. Actually I’m not interested in buying this service.
Same. I tried everything for this “permission-denied” and “unknown_resource” and it’s not working. My account is still on and nothing seems to work. Surely you must have done something that you forgot to annotate.
Also, I would like to input that you commented, “When using cached torrents, your device won’t connect to the p2p network directly,” yet everything that I see for any movie or show literally has nothing but Cached Torrents.
Help? Explain?
Debrid services let you download torrents using their servers, those files are then stored on the server so users can download them without connecting to the torrent network. This is why they are called “cached” torrents, the Debrid server acts as a file cache. Most add-ons give preference to cached torrents as those files tend to be more reliable and have better quality than files from hosters.
The reason you’re only getting cached torrents is that Hosters are disabled by default on FenomScrapers, if you want to enable them, open FenomScrapers, select the Premium Hosters tab, and click on Enable All Hoster Providers. Be aware that this will increase your search time when finding sources.
All of this worked, but when I choose a movie, I just keep getting, “Permission_Denied, Unknown_Ressource”
Please verify that your Debrid account has not expired and try to reauthorize it using My Accounts. Also, try clearing the cache following the steps in the FAQ. When restarting Kodi, use the Power button in the upper left corner of the Home Screen and select Exit, if you just kill the process, some settings may not be saved.
Same here, have you been able to figure how to make it work?