download-video

download-video is a skill for Claude Code from feiskyer/video-skills. It costs 112 tokens per session (645 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for saving online videos to your computer with yt-dlp, a command-line downloader that supports many websites. It can also save audio and subtitles.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to download videos from sites such as YouTube, Bilibili, TikTok, Vimeo, Instagram, and Twitch. It can limit quality, download audio as MP3, save subtitles, download playlists, and choose an output folder.
Why use it?
It removes the need to find a separate downloader for each video website or manually manage format and quality choices.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the video-skills plugin — 3 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to download videos from sites such as YouTube, Bilibili, TikTok, Vimeo, Instagram, and Twitch. It can limit quality, download audio as MP3, save subtitles, download playlists, and choose an output folder.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/feiskyer/video-skills/download-video
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 feiskyer/video-skills --skill download-video
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/feiskyer/video-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install video-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 112 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 645 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.
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 $0.00112 $0.00645
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.00322
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00129
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00064

Measured 12d ago against content hash dea2c689c762, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

download-video 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 12d 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/download-video/SKILL.md · 75 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 75 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Download Video

Download videos from YouTube, Bilibili, Twitter/X, TikTok, and 1000+ other sites using yt-dlp.

Step 1: Check prerequisites

which yt-dlp && yt-dlp --version
which ffmpeg

If yt-dlp is missing, install it:

# macOS
brew install yt-dlp ffmpeg

# Cross-platform
pip install yt-dlp

Step 2: Download

Use the bundled script — it wraps yt-dlp with sensible defaults and clear error messages.

python3 scripts/download.py "VIDEO_URL"

Default output: ~/Downloads/Videos/

Common options

python3 scripts/download.py "URL" -f 1080            # Max 1080p
python3 scripts/download.py "URL" -a                  # Audio only (MP3)
python3 scripts/download.py "URL" -F                  # List formats
python3 scripts/download.py "URL" --subs              # With subtitles
python3 scripts/download.py "URL" -o ~/Desktop        # Custom output dir
python3 scripts/download.py "URL" --cookies chrome    # Use browser cookies

Direct yt-dlp commands

For cases the script doesn't cover, use yt-dlp directly:

# Download playlist
yt-dlp -P ~/Downloads/Videos "PLAYLIST_URL"

# Custom filename template
yt-dlp -o "%(uploader)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s" "VIDEO_URL"

# Download with subtitles in specific languages
yt-dlp --write-subs --sub-lang zh,en -P ~/Downloads/Videos "VIDEO_URL"

Troubleshooting

Most download failures fall into these categories:

Symptom Fix
"Sign in required" or age-restricted Add --cookies chrome to use browser session
Only low quality available Update yt-dlp (brew upgrade yt-dlp), then try with --cookies chrome
Slow downloads Try --concurrent-fragments 3 or --downloader aria2c
Network errors (behind firewall) Use --proxy socks5://127.0.0.1:1080 or set ALL_PROXY env var

For platform-specific details (YouTube PO tokens, Bilibili series, TikTok watermark removal, etc.), see references/platform-tips.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 75 lines

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. 12d ago First seen · 75 lines · 112 tokens per session scan A dea2c689c762

Subscribe to this mod's changes

download-video is a skill published in the GitHub repository feiskyer/video-skills (14 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 112 tokens to every session and 645 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-30.

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