universal-video-downloader

universal-video-downloader is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from CraftOS-dev/CraftBot. It costs 56 tokens per session (433 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A video-downloading tool based on yt-dlp, a command-line program that retrieves media from many websites. It accepts links from services such as YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter/X.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps inspect a video's available formats, download the selected quality, merge streams into an MP4 file, send the result, and clean up the local file.
Why use it?
It handles choosing an available quality, combining separate video and audio streams, and removing the downloaded file after delivery.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Good fit It helps inspect a video's available formats, download the selected quality, merge streams into an MP4 file, send the result, and clean up the local file.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/craftos-dev/craftbot/universal-video-downloader
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 CraftOS-dev/CraftBot --skill universal-video-downloader
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CraftOS-dev/CraftBot

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 433 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00056 $0.00433
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00217
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00087
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00043

Measured 4d ago against content hash 95197d0c77bf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

universal-video-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 4d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/download.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.

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.

skills/universal-video-downloader/SKILL.md · 40 lines

What it actually says

Universal Video Downloader

Download videos from almost any platform using the powerful yt-dlp tool.

Features

  • Platform Support: YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter/X, Facebook, and many more.
  • Quality Selection: Choose from 144p up to 4K/8K resolutions.
  • Automatic Cleanup: Files are deleted from the server immediately after successful upload to the chat.
  • Smart Merging: Automatically merges high-quality video and audio streams into a single MP4 file.

Workflow

  1. Trigger: User sends a video link (e.g., YouTube, Instagram).
  2. Information Gathering: The agent uses scripts/download.py info to fetch available qualities and the video title.
  3. User Choice: The agent presents resolutions to the user and asks which one they prefer.
  4. Download: Once selected, the agent runs scripts/download.py download with the specific Format ID.
  5. Delivery: The agent sends the resulting file using the message tool with filePath.
  6. Cleanup: The agent must delete the file from disk using rm immediately after the message is successfully sent to save disk space.

Usage for Agents

1. Fetch Video Info

python3 scripts/download.py info "URL"

2. Download Specific Format

python3 scripts/download.py download "URL" "FORMAT_ID"

Safety & Storage

  • This skill is intended for temporary processing.
  • CRITICAL: Always delete the downloaded file after the user receives it to maintain disk space.
Files

What ships with it

2 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. 4d ago First seen · 40 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 95197d0c77bf

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universal-video-downloader is a skill published in the GitHub repository CraftOS-dev/CraftBot (380 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 433 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. 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.

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