youtube-download

youtube-download is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from joonlab/joonlab-claudecode-setting-for-share. It costs 49 tokens per session (897 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for saving YouTube videos to a local computer and reading information about them, such as the title, length, uploader, and view count. YouTube is a website for watching and sharing videos.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to download videos as MP4 files and collect their metadata for local processing or archiving.
Why use it?
It removes the need to download videos manually or copy their details by hand. It also handles different YouTube link formats.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to download videos as MP4 files and collect their metadata for local processing or archiving.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/joonlab/joonlab-claudecode-setting-for-share/youtube-download
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 joonlab/joonlab-claudecode-setting-for-share --skill youtube-download
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joonlab/joonlab-claudecode-setting-for-share

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 897 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 $0.00049 $0.00897
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00449
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00179
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00090

Measured 7d ago against content hash 758f234c589a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

youtube-download 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 7d ago.

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

claude/skills/youtube-download/SKILL.md · 127 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 127 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

YouTube Video Downloader

Overview

This skill enables Claude to download YouTube videos in the highest available quality and extract comprehensive metadata including title, description, duration, view count, uploader information, and more.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when users request:

  • "Download this YouTube video: [URL]"
  • "Save this video locally"
  • "Get me this YouTube video"
  • "Download [video title] from YouTube"
  • "I need to download a video from YouTube"

Workflow

Step 1: Download Video

Run the download script to fetch the YouTube video and metadata:

python scripts/download_youtube.py "<youtube_url>" [output_dir]

Arguments:

  • youtube_url (required): Full YouTube URL (e.g., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID)
  • output_dir (optional): Directory to save the video. Defaults to ~/Downloads

Output: JSON containing:

  • video_path: Downloaded video file path (MP4 format)
  • title: Video title
  • description: Video description
  • duration: Video duration in seconds
  • video_id: YouTube video ID
  • uploader: Channel/uploader name
  • upload_date: Upload date (YYYYMMDD format)
  • view_count: Number of views
  • like_count: Number of likes
  • channel: Channel name
  • thumbnail: Thumbnail URL

Example:

python scripts/download_youtube.py "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"

Download Quality: The script automatically downloads the best available quality by selecting:

  1. Best video (MP4) + best audio (M4A) and merges them
  2. Falls back to best single-file MP4 if merging is not available

Step 2: Inform User

After successful download, provide the user with:

  1. Confirmation that the video was downloaded
  2. Video title and basic metadata (duration, views, etc.)
  3. File path where the video was saved
  4. File size (if relevant)

Example response:

✓ Video downloaded successfully!

Title: [Video Title]
Duration: [X minutes Y seconds]
Views: [view count]
Saved to: ~/Downloads/[filename].mp4

Read the full file on GitHub · 127 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. 7d ago First seen · 127 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 758f234c589a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

youtube-download is a skill published in the GitHub repository joonlab/joonlab-claudecode-setting-for-share (10 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 897 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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