omnicaptions-download

omnicaptions-download is a skill for Claude Code from lattifai/omni-captions-skills. It costs 27 tokens per session (1,172 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A downloader for videos, audio, and captions from YouTube and many other video platforms, using yt-dlp. It can select whether to save audio or video and which quality to use.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to save online videos or audio, extract captions, or prepare media for local transcription or editing. Downloads require confirmation first.
Why use it?
It removes the need to find separate download tools for different video sites or manually extract audio and captions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is omnicaptions download "https://youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID" -o ./downloads/.

Part of the omnicaptions plugin — 5 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to save online videos or audio, extract captions, or prepare media for local transcription or editing. Downloads require confirmation first.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lattifai/omni-captions-skills
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lattifai/omni-captions-skills/omnicaptions-download

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install omnicaptions, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,172 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 $0.00027 $0.01172
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00586
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00234
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00117

Measured 12d ago against content hash 0e0d345bcf91, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

omnicaptions-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 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.

skills/omnicaptions-download/SKILL.md · 136 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 136 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Download from Video Platforms

Download videos, audio, and captions from YouTube and 1000+ video platforms using yt-dlp.

Confirmation Required

IMPORTANT: Before executing any download, you MUST confirm with the user using AskUserQuestion:

  1. Show the URL to download
  2. Show the quality setting (audio/video)
  3. Show the output directory
  4. Ask for confirmation

Example confirmation:

Ready to download:
- URL: https://youtube.com/watch?v=xxx
- Type: Audio only / Video (1080p)
- Save to: Current directory

Confirm download?

Only proceed with the download command after user confirms.

When to Use

  • Download YouTube videos/audio for offline use
  • Extract captions from video platforms
  • Get audio for local transcription or editing

When NOT to Use

  • Just need transcription (use /omnicaptions:transcribe - Gemini handles URLs directly)
  • Converting existing caption formats (use /omnicaptions:convert)

Setup

pip install omni-captions-skills --extra-index-url https://lattifai.github.io/pypi/simple/

CLI Usage

Note: By default, files are saved to the current working directory. Do not specify -o unless the user explicitly requests a different location.

# Download audio only (default, saves to current directory)
omnicaptions download "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID"

# Supports bare YouTube video ID (auto-validates via yt-dlp)
omnicaptions download e882eXLtwkI

# Download video (1080p recommended)
omnicaptions download "https://youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID" -q 1080p

# Only use -o when user explicitly requests a different location
omnicaptions download "https://youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID" -o ./downloads/
Option Description
-o, --output Output directory (default: current)
-q, --quality Quality: audio (default), best, 1080p, 720p, 480p, 360p
-v, --verbose Verbose output

Quality Presets

Preset Description
audio Audio only (m4a/mp3), smallest size
1080p 1080p video + audio (recommended for video)
720p 720p video + audio
480p 480p video + audio
360p 360p video + audio
best Best available quality (may be 4K+, very large)

Read the full file on GitHub · 136 lines

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 · 136 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 0e0d345bcf91

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omnicaptions-download is a skill published in the GitHub repository lattifai/omni-captions-skills (22 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 1,172 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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