youtube-downloader SKILL.md skillB
youtube-downloader from daymade/claude-code-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add daymade/claude-code-skills/youtube-downloader@git:20261012.33f7383Pins git:20261012.33f7383 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- B, 16 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- daymade/claude-code-skills
- Path
youtube-downloader/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 6
- Latest version
- git:20261012.33f7383, committed Oct 12, 2026
- First version recorded
- Nov 18, 2025
- Size
- 20,272 bytes
- Repository stars
- 1,485
- License
- MIT
Fetch existing YouTube transcripts/subtitles or archive spoken video content as text, and download YouTube videos/audio or HLS streams (m3u8) with yt-dlp and ffmpeg. Use for transcript/subtitle retrieval, text-first video archiving, video/audio downloads, protected streams with authentication headers, and download failures including nsig, 403 or browser-cookie issues.
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 Downloader ## Overview Enable reliable video and audio downloads from YouTube and HLS streaming platforms (Mux, Vimeo, etc.) using yt-dlp and ffmpeg. This skill provides workflows for: - YouTube downloads (up to 4K) using PO token providers or browser cookies - HLS stream downloads with authentication headers - Handling protected content and troubleshooting common download failures ## Goal Split: File vs. Text (Read First) Before downloading anything, classify the request: - **User wants the video/audio file itself** (save it, edit it, watch offline) → continue with the download flow below, unchanged. - **User wants the spoken content as text** (transcript, subtitles, meeting notes, archive, "what was said") → follow `references/text-first.md` FIRST: existing archived transcripts → platform transcript APIs → yt-dlp subtitle-only → authorized audio track + ASR. Do not download the full video just to obtain text. The text-first route never blocks a file request: when the user wants the file, download it with the unchanged flow below. ## Non-Technical User Experience (Default) …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add daymade/claude-code-skills/youtube-downloader@sha256:8fbbf5881c18b8c3The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261012.33f7383, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_gb4z5f7s5gpnssq7)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Nov 18, 2025 and Oct 12, 2026, about one every 66 days. Its first recorded version is graded A and its latest B.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261012.33f7383 latest | 2026-10-12 | 33f7383 | 20,272 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260904.f2ea8cb | 2026-09-04 | f2ea8cb | 19,109 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260524.69aba68 | 2026-05-24 | 69aba68 | 18,868 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260405.61fc1ff | 2026-04-05 | 61fc1ff | 18,854 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260122.35872b9 | 2026-01-22 | 35872b9 | 18,424 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20251118.adc4072 | 2025-11-18 | adc4072 | 10,745 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- fail: No link to a raw IP address (matched: http://127.0.0.1:1082)
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (20272 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 script tag
Starting a new one? Use a template for SKILL.md on mdpantry, which passes every one of these checks and says what to change in it.
Source
daymade/claude-code-skills · 1,485 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_gb4z5f7s5gpnssq7 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=daymade/claude-code-skills/youtube-downloader GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8fbbf5881c18b8c37ada65320e006d23ba456b5674f83155a7647c393e373044
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