video-summarizer

video-summarizer is a skill for Claude Code from liang121/video-summarizer. It costs 132 tokens per session (1,615 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool that downloads videos from more than 1,800 websites and creates video, audio, subtitles, transcripts, and summaries.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it with links from YouTube, Vimeo, TikTok, Instagram, Twitch, and other supported sites to download or transcribe videos and save the results in a local downloads folder.
Why use it?
It gathers the main ways to reuse video content into one downloadable package instead of requiring separate tools.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is ./downloads/.

Part of the video-summarizer plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it with links from YouTube, Vimeo, TikTok, Instagram, Twitch, and other supported sites to download or transcribe videos and save the results in a local downloads folder.

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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/liang121/video-summarizer
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/liang121/video-summarizer/video-summarizer

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install video-summarizer, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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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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Per session 132 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,615 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
  • Socket warn 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk warn 17 Feb 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 $0.00132 $0.01615
Opus 5 $0.00066 $0.00807
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00323
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00161

Measured 9d ago against content hash bbb70906bda1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

video-summarizer 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/install_deps.sh, scripts/parallel_transcribe.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-summarizer/SKILL.md · 188 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 188 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Video Summarizer

Overview

Download videos from any platform and generate a complete resource package including:

  • Original video file (mp4)
  • Audio file (mp3)
  • Subtitle file (with timestamps, vtt/srt format)
  • Summary file (summary.md)

Supports all 1800+ websites supported by yt-dlp.

Trigger Conditions

When the user:

  • Provides a video link and asks for a summary
  • Says "summarize this video", "what's in this video"
  • Asks to "extract video content", "transcribe video"
  • Says "download this video"
  • Provides a link from YouTube/Bilibili/Twitter/Vimeo/TikTok etc.

Supported Platforms

  • YouTube (youtube.com, youtu.be)
  • Bilibili (bilibili.com, b23.tv)
  • Twitter/X (x.com, twitter.com)
  • Vimeo (vimeo.com)
  • TikTok (tiktok.com)
  • Instagram (instagram.com)
  • Twitch (twitch.tv)
  • And 1800+ other platforms (all sites supported by yt-dlp)

Output Structure

All files are saved to downloads/<video-title>/ in the current working directory:

./downloads/
└── <video-title>/
    ├── video.mp4          # Original video
    ├── audio.mp3          # Extracted audio
    ├── subtitle.vtt       # Subtitles with timestamps
    ├── transcript.txt     # Plain text transcript (no timestamps)
    └── summary.md         # Structured summary

Workflow

Step 1: Install Dependencies

Run the install script to check and install all dependencies:

bash "$SKILL_DIR/scripts/install_deps.sh"

This installs: uv (Python package manager), ffmpeg, yt-dlp, and checks Python version. faster-whisper will be automatically managed by uv.

Step 2: Get Video Info and Create Output Directory

# Get video title (sanitize special characters for folder name)
TITLE=$(yt-dlp --print "%(title)s" "VIDEO_URL" | sed 's/[/:*?"<>|]/_/g' | cut -c1-80)
DURATION=$(yt-dlp --print "%(duration)s" "VIDEO_URL")

# Create output directory
OUTPUT_DIR=./downloads/"$TITLE"
mkdir -p "$OUTPUT_DIR"

Step 3: Download Video and Audio

# Download video (mp4 format, best quality up to 1080p)
yt-dlp -f "bestvideo[height<=1080][ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[height<=1080][ext=mp4]/best" \
  --merge-output-format mp4 \
  -o "$OUTPUT_DIR/video.%(ext)s" "VIDEO_URL"

# Extract audio (mp3 format)
yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 -o "$OUTPUT_DIR/audio.%(ext)s" "VIDEO_URL"

Read the full file on GitHub · 188 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 9d ago First seen · 188 lines · 132 tokens per session scan A bbb70906bda1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

video-summarizer is a skill published in the GitHub repository liang121/video-summarizer (53 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 132 tokens to every session and 1,615 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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