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Building, upstream tracking and YTSage's own README moved to the wiki; README points there. The history is not rewritten, unlike every other repository here. This one still merges from oop7/YTSage and a rewrite would change every commit id, which costs more than a clean history is worth in a fork. .github/ and readme-translations/ are upstream's files and stay where upstream put them. 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.