youtube-to-bookplayer

youtube-to-bookplayer is a skill for Claude Code from terrylica/cc-skills. It costs 33 tokens per session (2,568 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A tool workflow that downloads audio from YouTube, adds identifying information, and transfers it to BookPlayer on an iPhone. BookPlayer is an iOS audiobook app that remembers your place in long recordings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for lectures, audiobooks, podcasts, or other YouTube audio that you want to play in BookPlayer.
Why use it?
It avoids manually downloading, organising, and copying long-form audio to the phone.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the media-tools plugin — 3 skills shipped together , and of cc-skills

Good fit Use it for lectures, audiobooks, podcasts, or other YouTube audio that you want to play in BookPlayer.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/terrylica/cc-skills/youtube-to-bookplayer
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 terrylica/cc-skills --skill youtube-to-bookplayer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/terrylica/cc-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install media-tools, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills.

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.

agentmods badge for youtube-to-bookplayer

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/terrylica/cc-skills/youtube-to-bookplayer"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/terrylica/cc-skills/youtube-to-bookplayer/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,568 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.00033 $0.02568
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.01284
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00514
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00257

Measured 7d ago against content hash d42eb06b3ae7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

youtube-to-bookplayer scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 7d 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

rm -rf "$WORK_DIR"
plugins/media-tools/skills/youtube-to-bookplayer/SKILL.md · 297 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 297 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

youtube-to-bookplayer

Download audio from a YouTube video, tag metadata, and push to BookPlayer on iPhone via USB.

BookPlayer is an iOS audiobook player that resumes playback position — ideal for long-form YouTube content (lectures, audiobooks, podcasts). Files pushed to its /Documents/ directory are auto-imported on next app launch.


Self-Evolving Skill: This skill improves through use. If instructions are wrong, parameters drifted, or a workaround was needed — fix this file immediately, don't defer. Only update for real, reproducible issues.

Task Template

Execute phases 0–5 sequentially. Each phase has a [Preflight], [Ask], [Execute], or [Verify] tag indicating its nature. Do not skip phases.


Phase 0: Preflight [Preflight]

Check all required tools and device connectivity. Fail fast — do not proceed if any check fails.

# Tool availability
TOOLS_OK=true
for tool in yt-dlp ffmpeg exiftool; do
  if command -v "$tool" &>/dev/null; then
    echo "$tool: OK ($(command -v "$tool"))"
  else
    echo "$tool: MISSING"
    TOOLS_OK=false
  fi
done

# pymobiledevice3 (may only be available via uvx)
if command -v pymobiledevice3 &>/dev/null; then
  echo "pymobiledevice3: OK ($(command -v pymobiledevice3))"
else
  if uvx --python 3.14 --from pymobiledevice3 pymobiledevice3 --help &>/dev/null 2>&1; then
    echo "pymobiledevice3: OK (via uvx)"
  else
    echo "pymobiledevice3: MISSING"
    TOOLS_OK=false
  fi
fi

echo "---"
[ "$TOOLS_OK" = true ] && echo "All tools OK" || echo "BLOCKED: Install missing tools (see table below)"

If tools are missing:

Tool Install Command
yt-dlp brew install yt-dlp
ffmpeg brew install ffmpeg
exiftool brew install exiftool
pymobiledevice3 uvx --python 3.14 --from pymobiledevice3 pymobiledevice3 --help

Read the full file on GitHub · 297 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. 7d ago First seen · 297 lines · 33 tokens per session scan C d42eb06b3ae7

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youtube-to-bookplayer is a skill published in the GitHub repository terrylica/cc-skills (73 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 2,568 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-05.