video-downloader

video-downloader is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from happycapy-ai/Happycapy-skills. It costs 28 tokens per session (618 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A video downloader for YouTube and other platforms that saves videos to your computer. It supports selected quality and file formats, including video and audio-only files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Saving educational material, conference talks, webinars, playlists, and your own online videos for offline use or editing.
Why use it?
It lets you keep content for offline viewing, editing, or archiving when you need a local copy.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Saving educational material, conference talks, webinars, playlists, and your own online videos for offline use or editing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/happycapy-ai/happycapy-skills/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 happycapy-ai/Happycapy-skills --skill video-downloader
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/happycapy-ai/Happycapy-skills

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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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 618 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 $0.00028 $0.00618
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00309
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00124
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00062

Measured 12d ago against content hash f06e034ef673, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 12d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

3 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/video-downloader/SKILL.md · 106 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 106 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Video Downloader

This skill downloads videos from YouTube and other platforms directly to your computer.

When to Use This Skill

  • Downloading YouTube videos for offline viewing
  • Saving educational content for reference
  • Archiving important videos
  • Getting video files for editing or repurposing
  • Downloading your own content from platforms
  • Saving conference talks or webinars

What This Skill Does

  1. Downloads Videos: Fetches videos from YouTube and other platforms
  2. Quality Selection: Lets you choose resolution (480p, 720p, 1080p, 4K)
  3. Format Options: Downloads in various formats (MP4, WebM, audio-only)
  4. Batch Downloads: Can download multiple videos or playlists
  5. Metadata Preservation: Saves title, description, and thumbnail

How to Use

Basic Download

Download this YouTube video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=...
Download this video in 1080p quality

Audio Only

Download the audio from this YouTube video as MP3

Playlist Download

Download all videos from this YouTube playlist: [URL]

Batch Download

Download these 5 YouTube videos:
1. [URL]
2. [URL]
...

Example

User: "Download this YouTube video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=abc123"

Output:

Downloading from YouTube...

Video: "How to Build Products Users Love"
Channel: Lenny's Podcast
Duration: 45:32
Quality: 1080p

Progress: ████████████████████ 100%

✓ Downloaded: how-to-build-products-users-love.mp4
✓ Saved thumbnail: how-to-build-products-users-love.jpg
✓ Size: 342 MB

Saved to: ~/Downloads/

Inspired by: Lenny's workflow from his newsletter

Important Notes

⚠️ Copyright & Fair Use

  • Only download videos you have permission to download
  • Respect copyright laws and platform terms of service
  • Use for personal, educational, or fair use purposes
  • Don't redistribute copyrighted content

Tips

  • Specify quality if you need lower file size (720p vs 1080p)
  • Use audio-only for podcasts or music to save space
  • Download to a dedicated folder to stay organized
  • Check file size before downloading on slow connections

Read the full file on GitHub · 106 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 · 106 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A f06e034ef673

Subscribe to this mod's changes

video-downloader is a skill published in the GitHub repository happycapy-ai/Happycapy-skills (139 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 618 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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