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Youtube Dl

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dalehurley·vlatest·video-media

Downloads YouTube videos to your device quickly and easily for offline viewing or archiving – a handy tool for media enthusiasts.

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Install on your platform

Showing Claude Code. One command installs this skill into any of the agents below.

  1. 1

    Run this in your project

    terminal
    $ npx skills add dalehurley/phpbot --skill youtube-dl -a claude-code

  2. Uses the open-source skills CLI and needs Node.js. Add -g to install it for your user instead of this project.

What we know about this skill

Publisher

dalehurley

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Install target

Live repository

Not pinned. Installing fetches whatever the repository holds at the time you run the command.

No human has reviewed this code. The checks below are a static scan of the files at one commit — nobody has run this skill or judged whether it works. A skill runs with whatever access you give your agent, so read the source before you install it.

Automated safety checks

scanned

This skill passed all 6 checks. We read its files at one commit and looked for the things that make a skill dangerous to run — not for whether it works.

  • Declares what it does: passed

    SKILL.md parses and declares a name and a description.

    SKILL.md exists, its frontmatter parses, and it declares a name and a description.

  • No undeclared network calls: passed

    Makes no network calls.

    Every host the skill dials — from its scripts, its config endpoints or the commands it tells the agent to run — is either well-known package and API infrastructure or declared in its own frontmatter. Links in documentation are not counted.

  • No obfuscated payloads: passed

    No encoded or obfuscated payloads.

    No base64, hex or compressed blob is decoded and then executed, and no encoded shell commands.

  • No credential access: passed

    Reads no keys, tokens, keychains or credential files.

    Neither the code nor the SKILL.md instructions read SSH keys, cloud credentials, keychains, token stores, browser cookie databases or dotfiles that hold secrets.

  • No pipe-to-shell installers: passed

    No pipe-to-shell or download-and-run installers.

    No `curl … | sh` pattern, in the code or in the instructions, that runs code fetched at run time.

  • Pinned to a commit: passed

    Scanned dalehurley/phpbot at 6128f14773.

    The exact upstream commit SHA that was scanned is recorded, so the result refers to specific bytes.

Commit
6128f14773
Manifest
skills/youtube-dl/SKILL.md
Scanned
2 files, 265 lines
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About this skill

What it does

This skill allows you to download videos from YouTube and other supported platforms. It can retrieve video files in various formats, enabling offline viewing or further processing. The tool supports downloading playlists and individual videos based on search queries.

When to use it

  • Download a lecture recording for later review.
  • Save a music video to enjoy without an internet connection.
  • Retrieve a specific YouTube tutorial for reference in a project.
  • Archive a playlist of educational content.

Key capabilities

  • Video downloading from YouTube and other platforms
  • Playlist download support
  • Video retrieval via search queries
  • Support for various video formats

Example prompts

  • "Download the latest episode of 'Tech Daily' from YouTube."
  • "Get me all videos in the 'Cooking Basics' playlist on YouTube."
  • "Find and download a tutorial on how to build a birdhouse."

Tips & gotchas

The skill relies on external services for video retrieval. Ensure your agent has access to internet connectivity to successfully download content.