link-download

link-download is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from maystudios/claude-skills. It costs 85 tokens per session (650 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A downloader that saves online videos as MP4 files or extracts their audio as MP3. It uses yt-dlp and supports links from YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, X, Facebook, and many other sites.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to save one or many online videos, extract songs or other audio as MP3, choose an output directory, or download login-required content with Chrome cookies.
Why use it?
It handles format selection, audio extraction, file naming, output folders, and merging video parts in one workflow. Browser cookies can be supplied for content that requires an existing login.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to save one or many online videos, extract songs or other audio as MP3, choose an output directory, or download login-required content with Chrome cookies.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/maystudios/claude-skills/link-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 maystudios/claude-skills --skill link-download
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/maystudios/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 85 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 650 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high YARA Match · line 43
    YARA rule matched a known malware signature (reverse shell, backdoor, ransomware, C2 framework, or info stealer).
    Fix: Remove the malware payload or compromised file entirely. Investigate how it entered the skill and audit all other artifacts for additional indicators of compromise.
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 $0.00085 $0.00650
Opus 5.5 $0.00034 $0.00260
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00130
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00065

Measured 2mo ago against content hash d969778c2d87, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

link-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 2mo ago.

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

link-download/SKILL.md · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Video & Audio Download Skill

Download videos as MP4 or extract audio as MP3 from Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Twitter/X, and 1000+ sites.

Tool

Script: scripts/download.py -- wraps yt-dlp, handles install check, MP4 merging, MP3 extraction, folder creation.

Workflow

  1. Collect all URLs from the user's request (can be a single URL or a list)
  2. Determine the format:
    • Default: MP4 video
    • If user asks for audio/MP3/song/music: use --mp3
  3. Determine the output directory:
    • No folder specified: use the current working directory
    • Folder specified: use it as-is (will be created if missing)
  4. Run the download script
  5. Report which files were saved and where

Usage

# Single video as MP4, current directory
python scripts/download.py "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=..."

# Extract audio as MP3
python scripts/download.py "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=..." --mp3

# Multiple URLs as MP3 to a specific folder
python scripts/download.py "URL1" "URL2" --mp3 -o "/path/to/output"

# With browser cookies (for private/login-required content)
python scripts/download.py "URL" --cookies-from-browser chrome

Output Filename Pattern

  • MP4: {uploader}_{video_id}.mp4 -- e.g. DesignMotion_DUf3nehjIg7.mp4
  • MP3: {uploader}_{video_id}.mp3 -- e.g. DesignMotion_DUf3nehjIg7.mp3

Authentication

If a video requires login (private Instagram posts, age-restricted YouTube, etc.):

  • Add --cookies-from-browser chrome (or firefox, edge, safari)
  • The user must be logged in to that platform in the specified browser

Supported Platforms (examples)

  • YouTube (including playlists -- use --no-playlist disabled for full playlists)
  • Instagram (posts, reels)
  • TikTok
  • Twitter / X
  • Facebook
  • Vimeo
  • Reddit
  • And 1000+ more via yt-dlp

Notes

  • yt-dlp is auto-installed if not present
  • --no-playlist is set by default; remove it from the script call for full playlists
  • MP4: best quality video + audio merged automatically
  • MP3: extracts audio and converts to MP3 (192 kbps) via ffmpeg; ffmpeg must be installed

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 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. 2mo ago First seen · 74 lines · 85 tokens per session scan A d969778c2d87

Subscribe to this mod's changes

link-download is a skill published in the GitHub repository maystudios/claude-skills (26 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 650 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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