Homer
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Refresh fetched the account feed correctly -- the status line said "60 videos in feed" -- and the page stayed empty with "No subscriptions yet" on it. The empty-state hint added in 5.5.0 hides the grid so it can sit centred rather than pinned under a large blank area. Every path that changes the grid re-runs that check afterwards and shows it again; the account path was the one that did not, so the grid stayed hidden from startup no matter what was loaded into it. The local feed re-runs it and was unaffected, which is why this only showed up for someone signed in. Two related things while here. The empty-state message was written for local subscriptions and is wrong advice in account mode, which does not use them -- it now says to press Refresh rather than to go and subscribe to something. And the Subscriptions panel, which lists local subscriptions, is hidden in account mode instead of sitting empty beside a full feed and implying something failed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
SageTube
A watch-first YouTube client for the desktop. Search, browse channels and playlists, follow subscriptions, and stream videos in an embedded mpv player — with the full yt-dlp download feature set inherited from YTSage.
Features
Watching
- 📺 Embedded mpv player (Wayland/X11/Windows/macOS) with quality selector, speed, volume, subtitles, fullscreen
- 🔍 In-app YouTube search with thumbnail card grid
- 📂 Channel browsing (Videos / Shorts / Live) and playlist views
- 🔔 Local subscriptions — no Google account needed — with an aggregated feed; optional real account feed via browser cookies
- ⏯️ Watch history with resume positions and a persistent play queue
- ⬇️ One click from any video card into the downloader
Downloading (from YTSage)
- Format table, audio extraction, subtitles, SponsorBlock, chapters, playlists, trimming, speed limits, proxies, cookies, custom yt-dlp commands, download history — see the upstream README
Install
pip install .
sagetube
Requires libmpv for playback (Arch: pacman -S mpv) — see
Building. Without it the app works as a downloader.
Fork notes
SageTube is a fork of YTSage by
oop7 (MIT). The internal package keeps the
ytsage name so upstream fixes remain mergeable — see
Tracking upstream. The fork also fixes a number of
upstream bugs (unsafe partial-file cleanup, unverified binary updates,
thread-safety issues, PATH corruption on Windows — see the git log).
License
MIT — see LICENSE.