video-downloader

video-downloader is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from swesmith/davila7__claude-code-templates.734b8a50. It costs 28 tokens per session (618 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of video-downloader, MIT.

A tool for downloading videos from YouTube and other platforms to a computer, with choices for quality, file type, and audio-only output.

In plain words
What is it for?
Saving individual videos, playlists, or batches; choosing resolutions such as 480p through 4K; downloading MP4, WebM, or audio-only files; and preserving metadata.
Why use it?
It makes videos available for offline viewing, editing, or archiving when a local copy is needed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Saving individual videos, playlists, or batches; choosing resolutions such as 480p through 4K; downloading MP4, WebM, or audio-only files; and preserving metadata.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/swesmith/davila7__claude-code-templates.734b8a50/video-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 swesmith/davila7__claude-code-templates.734b8a50 --skill video-downloader
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/swesmith/davila7__claude-code-templates.734b8a50

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 618 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 $0.00028 $0.00618
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00309
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00124
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00062

Measured 11d ago against content hash b5acaa3f9ee2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

video-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.

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 video-downloader — 1 line 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.

cli-tool/components/skills/media/video-downloader/SKILL.md · 107 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 107 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Video Downloader

This skill downloads videos from YouTube and other platforms directly to your computer.

When to Use This Skill

  • Downloading YouTube videos for offline viewing
  • Saving educational content for reference
  • Archiving important videos
  • Getting video files for editing or repurposing
  • Downloading your own content from platforms
  • Saving conference talks or webinars

What This Skill Does

  1. Downloads Videos: Fetches videos from YouTube and other platforms
  2. Quality Selection: Lets you choose resolution (480p, 720p, 1080p, 4K)
  3. Format Options: Downloads in various formats (MP4, WebM, audio-only)
  4. Batch Downloads: Can download multiple videos or playlists
  5. Metadata Preservation: Saves title, description, and thumbnail

How to Use

Basic Download

Download this YouTube video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=...
Download this video in 1080p quality

Audio Only

Download the audio from this YouTube video as MP3

Playlist Download

Download all videos from this YouTube playlist: [URL]

Batch Download

Download these 5 YouTube videos:
1. [URL]
2. [URL]
...

Example

User: "Download this YouTube video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=abc123"

Output:

Downloading from YouTube...

Video: "How to Build Products Users Love"
Channel: Lenny's Podcast
Duration: 45:32
Quality: 1080p

Progress: ████████████████████ 100%

✓ Downloaded: how-to-build-products-users-love.mp4
✓ Saved thumbnail: how-to-build-products-users-love.jpg
✓ Size: 342 MB

Saved to: ~/Downloads/

Inspired by: Lenny's workflow from his newsletter

Important Notes

⚠️ Copyright & Fair Use

  • Only download videos you have permission to download
  • Respect copyright laws and platform terms of service
  • Use for personal, educational, or fair use purposes
  • Don't redistribute copyrighted content

Tips

  • Specify quality if you need lower file size (720p vs 1080p)
  • Use audio-only for podcasts or music to save space
  • Download to a dedicated folder to stay organized
  • Check file size before downloading on slow connections

Read the full file on GitHub · 107 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. 11d ago First seen · 107 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A b5acaa3f9ee2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

video-downloader is a skill published in the GitHub repository swesmith/davila7__claude-code-templates.734b8a50 (2 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 618 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to video-downloader, differing in 1 line, and is treated as a copy.

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