media-downloader

media-downloader is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from MemTensor/skills-vote. It costs 112 tokens per session (1,630 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of media-downloader, MIT.

A media-downloading guide that uses yt-dlp to save video or audio from more than 1,500 websites, including YouTube and social platforms.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps download individual videos, audio, subtitles, playlists, and media at selected resolutions such as 720p, 1080p, or 4K.
Why use it?
It provides ready-made commands for choosing quality, format, subtitles, or audio-only downloads instead of figuring out yt-dlp options from scratch.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It helps download individual videos, audio, subtitles, playlists, and media at selected resolutions such as 720p, 1080p, or 4K.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/memtensor/skills-vote/media-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 MemTensor/skills-vote --skill media-downloader
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MemTensor/skills-vote

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 112 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,630 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00112 $0.01630
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.00815
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00326
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00163

Measured 11d ago against content hash e6b951b56366, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

media-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 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to media-downloader — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

examples/recommend_skills/media-downloader/SKILL.md · 223 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 223 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Media Downloader

Download video/audio from 1500+ websites using yt-dlp. Supports format selection, subtitles, playlists, and custom output naming.

Quick Start

# Basic download (best quality)
yt-dlp "URL"

# Specific resolution
yt-dlp -f "bestvideo[height<=1080]+bestaudio/best[height<=1080]" "URL"

# With subtitles
yt-dlp --write-subs --sub-langs "en,zh" "URL"

# Audio only
yt-dlp -f "bestaudio" "URL"

Format Selection

Resolution Presets

Request Command
Best quality -f "bestvideo+bestaudio/best"
4K -f "bestvideo[height<=2160]+bestaudio/best"
1080p -f "bestvideo[height<=1080]+bestaudio/best"
720p -f "bestvideo[height<=720]+bestaudio/best"
480p -f "bestvideo[height<=480]+bestaudio/best"

List Available Formats

yt-dlp -F "URL"  # Show all formats with codes

Advanced Format Selection

# Prefer MP4 container
yt-dlp -f "bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[ext=mp4]/best" "URL"

# Specific format code (from -F output)
yt-dlp -f 137+140 "URL"

# Merge to specific container
yt-dlp --merge-output-format mkv "URL"

Subtitles

Download Subtitles

# Manual subtitles (human-created)
yt-dlp --write-subs --sub-langs "en,zh,ja" "URL"

# Auto-generated subtitles
yt-dlp --write-auto-subs --sub-langs "en" "URL"

# Both manual and auto
yt-dlp --write-subs --write-auto-subs --sub-langs "en,zh" "URL"

# Embed subtitles in video (MP4/MKV/WebM)
yt-dlp --write-subs --embed-subs "URL"

List Available Subtitles

yt-dlp --list-subs "URL"

Subtitle Format

# Convert to SRT
yt-dlp --write-subs --sub-format srt "URL"

# Available: srt, ass, vtt, lrc

Output Naming

Template Variables

Variable Description Example
%(title)s Video title My Video
%(id)s Video ID dQw4w9WgXcQ
%(ext)s File extension mp4
%(upload_date)s Upload date 20231215
%(uploader)s Channel name Rick Astley
%(playlist)s Playlist name Best Songs
%(playlist_index)s Position in playlist 01
%(resolution)s Video resolution 1920x1080

Read the full file on GitHub · 223 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 · 223 lines · 112 tokens per session scan A e6b951b56366

Subscribe to this mod's changes

media-downloader is a skill published in the GitHub repository MemTensor/skills-vote (301 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 112 tokens to every session and 1,630 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to media-downloader, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.