Video Downloader (yt-dlp)

Video Downloader (yt-dlp) is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tubecreate/tubecli. It costs 21 tokens per session (428 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A video downloader based on yt-dlp, a command-line program that retrieves media from online services. It can get video details, download files in several formats and qualities, search YouTube or SoundCloud, and manage saved downloads.

In plain words
What is it for?
Downloading videos or audio from YouTube, TikTok, and many other platforms; searching for videos; checking metadata; listing downloads; and using downloads in workflows.
Why use it?
It avoids switching between separate download tools and lets workflows use video files directly. You can inspect a video's metadata before deciding whether to download it.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Downloading videos or audio from YouTube, TikTok, and many other platforms; searching for videos; checking metadata; listing downloads; and using downloads in workflows.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tubecreate/tubecli/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 tubecreate/tubecli --skill video_downloader
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tubecreate/tubecli

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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Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 428 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 Tool Misuse · line 57
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
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 $0.00021 $0.00428
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00214
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00086
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00043

Measured 12d ago against content hash fc1362a011ce, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Video Downloader (yt-dlp) 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (__init__.py, extension.py, nodes.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.

tubecli/extensions/video_downloader/SKILL.md · 69 lines

What it actually says

Video Downloader Skill

This extension provides video downloading capabilities via yt-dlp.

Available API Endpoints

Check Status

GET /api/v1/ytdl/status

Returns whether yt-dlp is installed and its version.

Get Video Info

POST /api/v1/ytdl/info
{"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID"}

Returns video metadata (title, duration, uploader, thumbnails) without downloading.

Download Video

POST /api/v1/ytdl/download
{
  "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID",
  "format": "mp4",
  "quality": "720p",
  "title": "my_video"
}

Downloads video to data/ytdl_downloads/. Supports:

  • format: mp4, mp3, webm
  • quality: 360p, 480p, 720p, 1080p, best

Search Videos

POST /api/v1/ytdl/search
{
  "query": "python tutorial",
  "platform": "youtube",
  "limit": 10
}

Search for videos on YouTube or SoundCloud.

List Downloads

GET /api/v1/ytdl/downloads

Delete Download

DELETE /api/v1/ytdl/downloads/{filename}

Workflow Node

Use the 📹 Video Download node in workflows:

  • Inputs: url (required), format, quality
  • Outputs: file_path, filename, status

Supported Platforms

YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Twitter/X, Facebook, Twitch, Bilibili, SoundCloud, Vimeo, Dailymotion, and 50+ more platforms supported by yt-dlp.

Files

What ships with it

8 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. 12d ago First seen · 69 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A fc1362a011ce

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Video Downloader (yt-dlp) is a skill published in the GitHub repository tubecreate/tubecli (167 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 428 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.