video-downloader

video-downloader is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from humancto/indic-voice-pipeline. It costs 97 tokens per session (1,170 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for saving videos, audio, or playlists from URLs using yt-dlp, a command-line downloader that supports many websites.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for downloading videos, extracting audio, saving playlists, and checking available formats from a URL.
Why use it?
It removes the need to find separate download methods for different video sites or to manually extract audio.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Good fit It is for downloading videos, extracting audio, saving playlists, and checking available formats from a URL.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/humancto/indic-voice-pipeline/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 humancto/indic-voice-pipeline --skill video-downloader
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/humancto/indic-voice-pipeline

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 97 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,170 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 $0.00097 $0.01170
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00585
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00234
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00117

Measured 11d ago against content hash 4593fc749f67, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, 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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/check_deps.py, scripts/video_downloader.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/video-downloader/SKILL.md · 126 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 126 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Video Downloader

Download videos, audio, and playlists from any URL. Supports 1000+ sites via yt-dlp.

Prerequisites

Run once to install dependencies:

pip install yt-dlp --quiet

ffmpeg is also required for audio extraction and format merging:

brew install ffmpeg  # macOS

Step-by-Step Workflow

For ANY video download request, follow these steps:

Step 1: Check dependencies

/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/bin/python3.11 ~/.claude/skills/video-downloader/scripts/check_deps.py

Step 2: Determine intent and run the appropriate command

User wants to download a video:

/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/bin/python3.11 ~/.claude/skills/video-downloader/scripts/video_downloader.py download "<URL>" --output-dir ~/Downloads

User wants audio only (music, podcast, etc.):

/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/bin/python3.11 ~/.claude/skills/video-downloader/scripts/video_downloader.py audio "<URL>" --output-dir ~/Downloads --audio-format mp3

User wants a full playlist:

/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/bin/python3.11 ~/.claude/skills/video-downloader/scripts/video_downloader.py playlist "<URL>" --output-dir ~/Downloads

User wants to see available formats/qualities:

/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/bin/python3.11 ~/.claude/skills/video-downloader/scripts/video_downloader.py formats "<URL>"

User wants video info without downloading:

/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/bin/python3.11 ~/.claude/skills/video-downloader/scripts/video_downloader.py info "<URL>"

Step 3: Report results

Tell the user:

  • Where the file was saved (full path)
  • File size
  • Video title and duration
  • Any subtitles that were downloaded

All Commands

# Download single video (default: best quality up to 1080p, saved to ~/Downloads)
/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/bin/python3.11 ~/.claude/skills/video-downloader/scripts/video_downloader.py download "<URL>"

# Download with quality cap
/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/bin/python3.11 ~/.claude/skills/video-downloader/scripts/video_downloader.py download "<URL>" --quality 720

# Download with specific format ID (use 'formats' command to find IDs)
/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/bin/python3.11 ~/.claude/skills/video-downloader/scripts/video_downloader.py download "<URL>" --format 137

# Download without subtitles
/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/bin/python3.11 ~/.claude/skills/video-downloader/scripts/video_downloader.py download "<URL>" --no-subs

# Download to custom directory
/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/bin/python3.11 ~/.claude/skills/video-downloader/scripts/video_downloader.py download "<URL>" --output-dir ~/Videos

# Download audio only as MP3
/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/bin/python3.11 ~/.claude/skills/video-downloader/scripts/video_downloader.py audio "<URL>"

# Download audio as M4A or Opus
/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/bin/python3.11 ~/.claude/skills/video-downloader/scripts/video_downloader.py audio "<URL>" --audio-format m4a
/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/bin/python3.11 ~/.claude/skills/video-downloader/scripts/video_downloader.py audio "<URL>" --audio-format opus

# Download entire playlist
/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/bin/python3.11 ~/.claude/skills/video-downloader/scripts/video_downloader.py playlist "<URL>"

# List available formats
/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/bin/python3.11 ~/.claude/skills/video-downloader/scripts/video_downloader.py formats "<URL>"

# Show video info without downloading
/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/bin/python3.11 ~/.claude/skills/video-downloader/scripts/video_downloader.py info "<URL>"

Read the full file on GitHub · 126 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. 11d ago First seen · 126 lines · 97 tokens per session scan A 4593fc749f67

Subscribe to this mod's changes

video-downloader is a skill published in the GitHub repository humancto/indic-voice-pipeline (1 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 97 tokens to every session and 1,170 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.

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