youtube-downloader

youtube-downloader is a plugin for Claude Code from daymade/claude-code-skills. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, original, MIT.

A downloader for YouTube videos and HLS streams from services such as Vimeo and Mux. HLS is a format that delivers video as a sequence of small stream segments.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to download videos, save audio as MP3, retrieve m3u8 streams, and troubleshoot 403 responses or extraction failures.
Why use it?
It handles the practical issues involved in saving video or audio, including authentication headers, cookies, stream formats, and common download errors.

Plugin for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code plugin manifest.

Good fit Use it to download videos, save audio as MP3, retrieve m3u8 streams, and troubleshoot 403 responses or extraction failures.

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Install in Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add daymade/claude-code-skills/plugin install youtube-downloader
About the project

Claude Code Skills Marketplace is a collection and marketplace of skills, plugins, agents, and instructions that extend Claude Code with specialized development workflows. It is for developers who want to install existing workflows or create, validate, and package their own Claude Code skills.

daymade/claude-code-skills · 1,381 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/daymade/claude-code-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

youtube-downloader scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude-plugin/marketplace.json#youtube-downloader · 22 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "youtube-downloader",
  "description": "Download YouTube videos and HLS streams (m3u8) from platforms like Mux, Vimeo, etc. using yt-dlp and ffmpeg. Use when users request downloading videos, extracting audio, handling protected streams with authentication headers, or troubleshooting download issues like nsig extraction failures, 403 errors, or cookie extraction problems",
  "source": "./youtube-downloader",
  "strict": false,
  "version": "1.1.1",
  "category": "utilities",
  "keywords": [
    "youtube",
    "yt-dlp",
    "video-download",
    "audio-extraction",
    "mp3",
    "download",
    "hls",
    "m3u8",
    "ffmpeg",
    "streaming",
    "mux",
    "vimeo"
  ]
}
Files

What ships with it

1 file beside marketplace.json#youtube-downloader in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago Changed 7cde19a5b2cf
  2. 4d ago First seen · 22 lines scan A 8eb4d138b51c

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youtube-downloader is a plugin published in the GitHub repository daymade/claude-code-skills (1,381 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.