youtube-downloader

95 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a coding skill usually runs build and test commands.

By ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills (GitHub) · coding · 79,186 stars · scanned at commit be2a406

Download YouTube videos with customizable quality and format options. Use this skill when the user asks to download, save, or grab YouTube videos. Supports various quality settings (best, 1080p, 720p, 480p, 360p), multiple formats (mp4, webm, mkv), and audio-only downloads as MP3.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Runs commands on your computer

The author does not mention this. Expected for a coding skill.

Found in 14 places.

video-downloader/SKILL.md, line 15python scripts/download_video.py "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID"
video-downloader/SKILL.md, line 35python scripts/download_video.py "URL" -q 720p
video-downloader/SKILL.md, line 48python scripts/download_video.py "URL" -f webm

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video-downloader/SKILL.md, line 56python scripts/download_video.py "URL" -a
video-downloader/SKILL.md, line 64python scripts/download_video.py "URL" -o /path/to/directory
video-downloader/SKILL.md, line 71python scripts/download_video.py "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ" -q 1080p
video-downloader/SKILL.md, line 76python scripts/download_video.py "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ" -a
video-downloader/SKILL.md, line 81python scripts/download_video.py "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ" -q 720p -f webm -o /custom/path
video-downloader/scripts/download_video.py, line 16subprocess.run(["yt-dlp", "--version"], capture_output=True, check=True)
video-downloader/scripts/download_video.py, line 17except (subprocess.CalledProcessError, FileNotFoundError):
video-downloader/scripts/download_video.py, line 19subprocess.run([sys.executable, "-m", "pip", "install", "--break-system-packages", "yt-dlp"], check=True)
video-downloader/scripts/download_video.py, line 24result = subprocess.run(
video-downloader/scripts/download_video.py, line 92subprocess.run(cmd, check=True)
video-downloader/scripts/download_video.py, line 95except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'youtube-downloader' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'youtube-downloader' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named youtube-downloader already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'be2a406907dbc61b73e6827ded415c96139d13a2' -- 'video-downloader' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'video-downloader' ~/.agents/skills/'youtube-downloader' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'youtube-downloader' ~/.claude/skills/'youtube-downloader' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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Score history

Date	Version	Score
2026-11-08	`be2a406`	95
2026-11-07	`be2a406`	95

Also found in

Identical copies of this skill exist at:

boisenoise/skills-collections/skills/composio-video-downloader
composio-community/awesome-codex-skills/video-downloader
nicepkg/ai-workflow/workflows/video-creator-workflow/.claude/skills/video-downloader
openteams-lab/openteams/assets/skills/video-downloader