🎥 YTSage

A modern YouTube downloader with a clean PySide6 interface.
Download videos in any quality, extract audio, fetch subtitles, and more.

Installation • Features • Usage • Screenshots • Contributing

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✨ Features

Core Features	Advanced Features	Extra Features
🎥 Format Table	🚫 SponsorBlock Integration	💾 Save Download Path
🎵 Audio Extraction	📝 Multi-Subtitle Select & Merge	🔄 Auto-Updates
✨ Simple UI	💾 Save Description	🛠️ FFmpeg/yt-dlp Detection
📋 Playlist Support	🖼️ Save thumbnail	⚙️ Custom Commands
🖼️ Playlist Selector	🚀 Speed Limiter	🍪 Login with Cookies
	✂️ Trim Video Sections

🚀 Installation

Quick Install (Recommended)

pip install ytsage

# Run the application
ytsage

📦 Other Installation Methods

Pre-built Executables

• 🪟 Windows: YTSage.exe
• 🪟 Windows: YTSage-ffmpeg.exe (Includes FFmpeg)
• 🐧 Linux: YTSage-x86_64.AppImage
• 🍎 macOS: YTSage-macOS-app.zip
• 🍎 macOS: YTSage.dmg

Manual Installation from Source

# Clone repository
git clone https://github.com/oop7/YTSage.git

# Navigate to directory
cd YTSage

# Install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt

# Run application
python main.py

📸 Screenshots

Main Interface	Playlist Download
Audio Format	Subtitle Options

📖 Usage

🎯 Basic Usage

1. Launch YTSage
2. Paste YouTube URL (or use "Paste URL" button)
3. Click "Analyze"
4. Select Format:
   • Video for video downloads
   • Audio Only for audio extraction
5. Choose Options:
   • Enable subtitles & select language
   • Enable subtitle merge
   • Save thumbnail
   • Remove sponsor segments
   • Save description
6. Select Output Directory
7. Click "Download"

📋 Playlist Download

1. Paste Playlist URL
2. Click "Analyze"
3. Select videos from the playlist selector (optional, defaults to all)
4. Choose desired format/quality
5. Click "Download"

💡 The application automatically handles the download queue

🧰 Advanced Options

• Quality Selection: Choose the highest resolution for best quality
• Subtitle Options: Filter languages and embed into video
• Custom Commands: Access advanced yt-dlp features
• Save Description: Save the description of the video
• Save Thumbnail: Save the thumbnail of the video
• Remove Sponsor Segments: Remove sponsor segments from the video
• Speed Limiter: Limit the download speed
• Login with Cookies: Login with cookies
• Save Download Path: Save the download path
• Update yt-dlp: Updates yt-dlp (works if installed via PyPI or when running from source using main.py)
• FFmpeg/yt-dlp Detection: Automatically detect FFmpeg/yt-dlp
• Custom Commands: Access advanced yt-dlp features
• Trim Video: Download only specific parts of a video by specifying time ranges (HH:MM:SS format)

🛠️ Troubleshooting

• When the app doesn't display the format table: Update yt-dlp

🧩 Requirements

Python 3.7+
PySide6
yt-dlp
Pillow
requests
FFmpeg
packaging
markdown

👥 Contributing

We welcome contributions! Here's how you can help:

1. 🍴 Fork the repository
2. 🌿 Create your feature branch:

   git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature
   

3. 💾 Commit your changes:

   git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature'
   

4. 📤 Push to the branch:

   git push origin feature/AmazingFeature
   

5. 🔄 Open a Pull Request

📊 Star History

📜 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

🙏 Acknowledgments

Technology	Purpose
yt-dlp	Download Engine
PySide6	GUI Framework
FFmpeg	Media Processing
Pillow	Image Processing
requests	HTTP Requests
packaging	Packaging
markdown	Markdown Processing

⚠️ Disclaimer

This tool is for personal use only. Please respect YouTube's terms of service and content creators' rights.

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Made with ❤️ by oop7