youtube-tools

youtube-tools is a skill for Claude Code from Casper-Studios/casper-marketplace. It costs 78 tokens per session (1,721 once invoked), scanned B, original, MPL-2.0.

A local toolkit for working with YouTube videos through yt-dlp, a command-line downloader. It can obtain videos, audio, subtitles or transcripts, and video details without API keys.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to download individual videos or playlists, extract subtitles, retrieve titles and other metadata, or save audio-only files.
Why use it?
It avoids setting up paid or authenticated services for common YouTube download and metadata tasks.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the content-marketing plugin — 2 skills, 1 command shipped together

Good fit Use it to download individual videos or playlists, extract subtitles, retrieve titles and other metadata, or save audio-only files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/casper-studios/casper-marketplace/youtube-tools
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.

Any agent
npx skills add Casper-Studios/casper-marketplace --skill youtube-tools
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Casper-Studios/casper-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install content-marketing, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 1 command.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for youtube-tools

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/casper-studios/casper-marketplace/youtube-tools/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/casper-studios/casper-marketplace/youtube-tools)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/casper-studios/casper-marketplace/youtube-tools"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/casper-studios/casper-marketplace/youtube-tools/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for youtube-tools

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/casper-studios/casper-marketplace/youtube-tools"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/casper-studios/casper-marketplace/youtube-tools.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,721 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00078 $0.01721
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00860
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00344
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00172

Measured 11d ago against content hash b855f94621c8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

youtube-tools scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/download_video.py, scripts/get_transcript.py, scripts/get_video_info.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

sudo apt install ffmpeg
plugins/design/content-marketing/skills/youtube-tools/SKILL.md · 225 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 225 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

YouTube Tools (yt-dlp)

Overview

Free, local YouTube operations using yt-dlp. No API keys required, no per-video costs. Works offline after installation.

When to Use This vs Apify

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ DECISION: YouTube Tools (yt-dlp) vs Apify                       │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│                                                                 │
│ Use youtube-tools (FREE) when:                                  │
│ ├── Downloading videos to local storage                         │
│ ├── Extracting transcripts/subtitles                            │
│ ├── Getting video metadata (title, duration, views, etc.)       │
│ ├── Bulk downloading playlists or channels                      │
│ ├── Converting to audio-only (MP3)                              │
│ └── You want zero API costs                                     │
│                                                                 │
│ Use apify-scrapers when:                                        │
│ ├── Scraping YouTube SEARCH results                             │
│ ├── Getting comments at scale                                   │
│ ├── Channel analytics and statistics                            │
│ ├── Trending video discovery                                    │
│ └── You need cloud-based processing                             │
│                                                                 │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Quick Decision Tree

What do you need?
│
├── Download video(s)
│   ├── Single video → scripts/download_video.py URL
│   ├── Multiple videos → scripts/download_video.py --urls-file list.txt
│   ├── Playlist → scripts/download_video.py "playlist_url"
│   ├── Audio only → scripts/download_video.py URL --audio-only
│   └── Specific quality → scripts/download_video.py URL --quality 720p
│
├── Get transcript/subtitles
│   ├── Auto-generated captions → scripts/get_transcript.py URL
│   ├── Manual subtitles → scripts/get_transcript.py URL --manual-only
│   ├── Specific language → scripts/get_transcript.py URL --lang es
│   └── All available → scripts/get_transcript.py URL --all-langs
│
├── Get video metadata
│   ├── Single video → scripts/get_video_info.py URL
│   ├── Multiple videos → scripts/get_video_info.py --urls-file list.txt
│   └── Playlist info → scripts/get_video_info.py "playlist_url"
│
└── Advanced
    ├── Age-restricted → scripts/download_video.py URL --cookies-from-browser chrome
    ├── Private videos → Requires authentication (see references/yt-dlp-guide.md)
    └── Live streams → scripts/download_video.py URL --live-from-start

Read the full file on GitHub · 225 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md 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. 11d ago First seen · 225 lines · 78 tokens per session scan B b855f94621c8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

youtube-tools is a skill published in the GitHub repository Casper-Studios/casper-marketplace (12 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MPL-2.0. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 1,721 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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