youtube-downloader

youtube-downloader is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from daymade/claude-code-skills. It costs 74 tokens per session (4,752 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for downloading videos and audio from YouTube and HLS streams, a format used by services such as Vimeo and Mux.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for saving videos, extracting audio, choosing quality, downloading subtitles, and troubleshooting YouTube or HLS downloads.
Why use it?
It helps handle common download obstacles such as bot checks, authentication, protected streams, HTTP 403 errors, and failed signature extraction.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It is for saving videos, extracting audio, choosing quality, downloading subtitles, and troubleshooting YouTube or HLS downloads.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/daymade/claude-code-skills/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 · 1,385 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.

Any agent
npx skills add daymade/claude-code-skills --skill youtube-downloader
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/daymade/claude-code-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin youtube-downloader/plugin install youtube-downloader after adding the marketplace above.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,752 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
  • Socket pass 5 Apr 2026
  • Snyk warn 5 Apr 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high YARA Match · line 44
    YARA rule matched a known malware signature (reverse shell, backdoor, ransomware, C2 framework, or info stealer).
    Fix: Remove the malware payload or compromised file entirely. Investigate how it entered the skill and audit all other artifacts for additional indicators of compromise.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 326
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00074 $0.04752
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.02376
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00950
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00475

Measured 5d ago against content hash d75d90722029, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

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 5d ago.

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

youtube-downloader/SKILL.md · 510 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 510 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

YouTube Downloader

Overview

Enable reliable video and audio downloads from YouTube and HLS streaming platforms (Mux, Vimeo, etc.) using yt-dlp and ffmpeg. This skill provides workflows for:

  • YouTube downloads (up to 4K) using PO token providers or browser cookies
  • HLS stream downloads with authentication headers
  • Handling protected content and troubleshooting common download failures

Non-Technical User Experience (Default)

Assume the user is non-technical. Do not ask them to run commands. Execute everything yourself and report progress in plain language. Avoid mentioning tooling unless the user asks.

Default flow:

  1. Ask for the URL (if not provided).
  2. Fetch video metadata (title/uploader/duration/thumbnail) and confirm it matches the user's intent.
    • If yt-dlp is blocked by “confirm you’re not a bot”, fall back to YouTube oEmbed for title/uploader/thumbnail (duration may be unknown).
  3. Offer simple choices (video vs. audio-only, quality, subtitles, save location).
  4. Proceed with sensible defaults if the user does not specify:
    • Video download at best quality
    • MP4 merged output
    • Single video only (no playlists)
  5. Download and report the final file path, file size, and resolution (if video).

Offer choices in user-friendly terms:

  • “Download the video in best quality (default)”
  • “Download audio only (MP3)”
  • “Pick a quality: 1080p / 720p / 480p / 360p”
  • “Include subtitles (if available)”
  • “Save to the Downloads folder (default) or tell me another folder”

Always render the thumbnail when available:

  • If metadata includes a thumbnail URL, include it using Markdown image syntax: ![Thumbnail](URL).

Ask before doing extra work:

  • Confirm playlist downloads (can be large).
  • Confirm installing/upgrading dependencies if missing.
  • Ask before extracting browser cookies.
  • If using cookies, never mention cookie counts or raw cookie details in user-facing responses. Say “used your Chrome login session”.
  • If verification is required, automatically set up a local PO Token helper (no user actions). If Docker is missing or fails, do not attempt to install Docker—switch to the browser-based PO Token provider instead.

Read the full file on GitHub · 510 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 5d ago Changed · +1 lines d75d90722029
  2. 7d ago First seen · 509 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A e67f1ff2eb48

Subscribe to this mod's changes

youtube-downloader is a skill published in the GitHub repository daymade/claude-code-skills (1,385 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 4,752 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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