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Yt Dlp

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lwmxiaobei·vlatest·video-media

Yt Dlp analyzes YouTube videos for specific content or patterns, useful for research, monitoring, and identifying relevant clips.

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  1. 1

    Run this in your project

    terminal
    $ npx skills add lwmxiaobei/yt-dlp-skill --skill yt-dlp -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

lwmxiaobei

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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 failed 1 of 6 checks. A failure is not proof of bad intent; it means something in the code needs a human to look at it before you run it.

  • No undeclared network calls: failed

    Contacts 5 hosts that are neither well-known infrastructure nor declared in the skill's frontmatter: google.com, twitter.com, vimeo.com, youtu.be, youtube.com.

    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.

    Hosts contacted

    youtube.comundeclaredyoutu.beundeclaredvimeo.comundeclaredtwitter.comundeclaredgoogle.comundeclared

    What it found (3 of 7)

    • scripts/test_yt_dlp.py:44contacts youtube.com
      ("Check out https://youtube.com/watch?v=test", 1),
    • scripts/test_yt_dlp.py:67contacts youtube.com
      ("https://youtube.com/watch?v=abc", True),
    • scripts/test_yt_dlp.py:45contacts youtu.be
      ("Multiple: https://youtu.be/abc and https://vimeo.com/123", 2),

  • 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 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 lwmxiaobei/yt-dlp-skill at 7ea92082e1.

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

Commit
7ea92082e1
Manifest
SKILL.md
Scanned
7 files, 717 lines
This is a static scan, not a review. It reads the skill's files; it does not run them, and it cannot tell you whether the skill is any good or whether the code does what its description says. A skill runs with whatever access you give your agent.
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About this skill

What it does

The yt-dlp skill allows AI agents to download videos from YouTube and other supported platforms. It's a fork of the popular youtube-dl project, offering improved performance and more features. Specifically, it can handle various video formats, resolutions, and subtitles while respecting age restrictions and geographic limitations.

When to use it

  • Research: Downloading lectures or tutorials for offline study.
  • Content Archiving: Saving videos that might disappear from online platforms in the future.
  • Automated Content Creation: Gathering video clips for creating compilations or other derivative works.
  • Personal Backup: Downloading videos shared privately with you.

Key capabilities

  • Downloads videos from YouTube and many other sites.
  • Supports various resolutions and formats.
  • Handles age restrictions and geographic limitations.
  • Can download subtitles.

Example prompts

  • "Download the latest episode of [YouTube channel name]."
  • "Get me a video of [specific topic] from YouTube."
  • "Save this YouTube link: [link to video]"

Tips & gotchas

The skill requires an internet connection to download videos. Be mindful of copyright restrictions and terms of service when downloading content.