🎬 Pica – Clean & Simple YouTube Video Downloader for Windows

Pica is a lightweight, distraction-free desktop YouTube downloader.
It focuses on clarity, speed, and a smooth user experience — without ads, clutter, or confusing options.

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The Mission:
Most video downloaders feel bloated, shady, or confusing.
Pica is built to do one job well:
Let users download videos or audio in their desired quality with a clean interface and zero noise.

It is designed as a learning-focused, ethical, and user-respecting tool.

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💻 Download for Windows

🔗 Download previous versions from the Releases section of this repository.

Download Latest Release Now

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🚀 Features

🎞 Clean Quality List – 144p to 4K without duplicates
🎧 Best Audio Only – Single clean audio format
🔀 Adaptive Stream Support – Automatic audio + video merging
⚙️ FFmpeg Integration – Seamless background merging

🧩 Browser Extension Support

• One-click download button directly on YouTube video pages
• Automatically sends the video link to the Pica desktop app
• No copy–paste needed
• Designed to feel native and instant

📚 Smart Video Library

• All downloaded videos are displayed with thumbnails
• Videos grouped by channel/publisher name
• Shows original upload dates
• Designed to feel like a classic offline YouTube experience

📂 Open File & Open Location – Quick access after download
🧼 Minimal UI – No ads, no clutter
🕶 Autostartup & Tray support – Auto start & stay silent in tray
🧠 Beginner-Friendly – Simple and easy to use

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⚠️ Ethical Use Disclaimer

🚨 Pica does NOT support piracy.

This software is intended for:

• Downloading your own videos
• Educational and learning purposes
• Publicly available, non-copyrighted content

The developer is not responsible for misuse of this software.

Please respect creators and platform terms.

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📸 Screenshots

| Screenshot | Description | |----------|-------------| | | Main window with clean quality selection | | | Download Button YouTube Page (Extension) | | | Select Quality & Save Location | | | Fast Downloading | | | Downloaded files library view (with thumbnails) |

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🛠 Tech Stack

• Language: Python
• GUI: Tkinter
• Backend: Pytube

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⚙️ Local Setup

git clone https://github.com/mshezikhan/pica.git
cd downloader
python -m venv venv
venv\Scripts\activate         # For Windows
pip install -r requirements.txt
python main.py

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Note: Download ffmpeg.exe and paste in tools/ffmpeg/

👥 Contributing

1. Fork the repository
2. Create your feature branch: git checkout -b feature-name
3. Commit your changes
4. Push to your branch
5. Open a Pull Request 🚀

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📄 License

MIT License

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Made with ❤️ by Shezi Khan