youtube-search SKILL.md skillA
youtube-search from mathews-tom/armory is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add mathews-tom/armory/youtube-search@v1.1.1Pins v1.1.1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- mathews-tom/armory
- Path
skills/youtube-search/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v1.1.1, committed Oct 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- Mar 26, 2026
- Size
- 7,925 bytes
- Repository stars
- 339
- License
- MIT
Search YouTube by keyword and return structured video metadata (title, URL, channel, views, duration, date) via yt-dlp. No API keys. Triggers on: "search youtube", "find youtube videos", "top youtube videos on", "trending videos on", "youtube results for", "yt search", "/yt-search".
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# YouTube Search
Search YouTube by keyword and return structured video metadata — title, URL,
channel, views, duration, upload date. Uses `yt-dlp` for scraping with no API
keys or OAuth required.
## Prerequisites
```bash
uv tool install yt-dlp
```
Verify:
```bash
yt-dlp --version
```
## Usage
### Basic Search
```bash
yt-dlp "ytsearch10:claude code skills" --dump-json --flat-playlist --no-warnings 2>/dev/null \
| jq -r '[.title, .url, .channel, .view_count, .duration_string, .upload_date] | @tsv'
```
- `ytsearch10:` — search YouTube, return 10 results (adjust number as needed)
- `--dump-json` — output metadata as JSON
- `--flat-playlist` — don't download, just list
- `--no-warnings` — suppress non-error output
### Structured JSON Output
```bash
yt-dlp "ytsearch5:claude code mcp servers" \
--dump-json --flat-playlist --no-warnings 2>/dev/null \
| jq '{
title: .title,
url: .url,
channel: .channel,
views: .view_count,
duration: .duration_string,
upload_date: .upload_date,
description: (.description // "" | .[0:200])
}'
```
### Search with Sorting
yt-dlp does not support server-side sort. To sort by views or date, capture all
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add mathews-tom/armory/youtube-search@sha256:53f11e1ad53401b0The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.1.1, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Mar 26, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026, about one every 48 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.1.1 latest | 2026-10-05 | b6a2050 | 7,925 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.1 | 2026-04-11 | 0aa221a | 7,921 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.1 | 2026-04-07 | b03849d | 8,336 B | B | view · diff |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-03-27 | d46cf2e | 8,336 B | B | view · diff |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-03-26 | 6fe71e6 | 8,333 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (7925 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
mathews-tom/armory · 339 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-30 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_4zry3wyn6et3tidz GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mathews-tom/armory/youtube-search GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/53f11e1ad53401b0d6dbc82168d880d5f985d35da016432b96209d1eed34c862
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