media-download SKILL.md skillA
media-download from varghq/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add varghq/skills/media-download@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- varghq/skills
- Path
media-download/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Oct 27, 2026
- Size
- 4,755 bytes
- Repository stars
- 21
- License
- MIT
Download videos, audio and images to local files from a link. Video and audio come from X/Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Threads, Reddit, Vimeo, LinkedIn, Twitch, VK, Rutube, Bilibili, Dailymotion and the 1800+ other sites yt-dlp supports. Pinterest images come from a pin, board, profile or a plain search query, which is useful for moodboards and visual references. Use when the user pastes a link and wants to download, save or grab it, wants its audio, metadata or a whole…
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
# Media download There are two scripts in `scripts/` next to this file. Each prints only the paths of the files it saved on stdout. Messages and errors go to stderr. Neither shows a progress bar, so the output stays short. Run long downloads with a generous timeout or in the background. ## Video and audio by link: `scripts/video.sh` It uses yt-dlp from PATH, or downloads a standalone build into `~/.cache/video-download` the first time. It picks an mp4 (h264 + aac) that plays everywhere. ```bash S=<this skill dir>/scripts/video.sh bash $S "<url>" # best quality → ./downloads/<Site>/<title> [<id>].mp4 bash $S -q 720 "<url>" # cap at 720p (smaller side, so vertical videos stay 720×1280) bash $S -a "<url>" # audio only → mp3 bash $S -p "<playlist or carousel>" # every item bash $S -o ~/Downloads "<url1>" "<url2>" bash $S -c chrome "<url>" # use the user's logged-in browser session (chrome|safari|firefox|edge|brave) ``` Metadata without downloading: `yt-dlp -J --no-playlist "<url>"`. Available qualities: `yt-dlp -F "<url>"`. ## Pinterest images: `scripts/pinterest.sh` …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add varghq/skills/media-download@sha256:d35b68bc359964a2The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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_he2et5vv7vrmzhj7)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 27, 2026.
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 (4755 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
varghq/skills · 21 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_he2et5vv7vrmzhj7 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=varghq/skills/media-download GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d35b68bc359964a22b7d035c56c5ff06570466fa509deef7a3e765616294eb61
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.