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youtube-acquisition
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By jmagly/aiwg (GitHub) · coding · 229 stars · scanned at commit 5c72814
yt-dlp patterns for acquiring content from YouTube and video platforms
Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.
What this skill can do
Downloads and installs other software
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Found in 10 places.
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Runs commands on your computer
The author does not mention this. Expected for a coding skill.
Found in 57 places.
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- agentic/code/plugins/media-curator/skills/youtube-acquisition/SKILL.md, line 80
yt-dlp "VIDEO_URL" - agentic/code/plugins/media-curator/skills/youtube-acquisition/SKILL.md, line 110
yt-dlp -f "bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]" "VIDEO_URL" - agentic/code/plugins/media-curator/skills/youtube-acquisition/SKILL.md, line 127
yt-dlp -f "bestaudio" -x --audio-format mp3 "VIDEO_URL" - agentic/code/plugins/media-curator/skills/youtube-acquisition/SKILL.md, line 158
yt-dlp -f "bestvideo[height<=1080][ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]" "VIDEO_URL" - agentic/code/plugins/media-curator/skills/youtube-acquisition/SKILL.md, line 176
yt-dlp -F "VIDEO_URL" - agentic/code/plugins/media-curator/skills/youtube-acquisition/SKILL.md, line 198
yt-dlp "PLAYLIST_URL" - agentic/code/plugins/media-curator/skills/youtube-acquisition/SKILL.md, line 214
yt-dlp --playlist-start 1 --playlist-end 10 "PLAYLIST_URL" - agentic/code/plugins/media-curator/skills/youtube-acquisition/SKILL.md, line 230
yt-dlp --playlist-reverse "PLAYLIST_URL" - agentic/code/plugins/media-curator/skills/youtube-acquisition/SKILL.md, line 239
yt-dlp "https://www.youtube.com/@CHANNEL_HANDLE/videos" - agentic/code/plugins/media-curator/skills/youtube-acquisition/SKILL.md, line 254
yt-dlp --dateafter 20230101 "CHANNEL_URL" - agentic/code/plugins/media-curator/skills/youtube-acquisition/SKILL.md, line 270
yt-dlp --min-views 100000 "CHANNEL_URL" - agentic/code/plugins/media-curator/skills/youtube-acquisition/SKILL.md, line 282
yt-dlp "ytsearch10:artist name song" - agentic/code/plugins/media-curator/skills/youtube-acquisition/SKILL.md, line 298
yt-dlp "ytsearchsortorder:view_count:artist name" - agentic/code/plugins/media-curator/skills/youtube-acquisition/SKILL.md, line 316
yt-dlp --embed-metadata "VIDEO_URL" - agentic/code/plugins/media-curator/skills/youtube-acquisition/SKILL.md, line 334
yt-dlp --write-thumbnail "VIDEO_URL" - agentic/code/plugins/media-curator/skills/youtube-acquisition/SKILL.md, line 353
yt-dlp --write-info-json "VIDEO_URL" - agentic/code/plugins/media-curator/skills/youtube-acquisition/SKILL.md, line 372
yt-dlp --write-subs --all-subs "VIDEO_URL"
and 37 more places
Reads your browser cookies or saved passwords
This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README.
Found in 1 place.
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jmagly/aiwg has 1 more folder with a skill named youtube-acquisition. This page shows the lowest-scoring copy.
Install
Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.
if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'youtube-acquisition' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'youtube-acquisition' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named youtube-acquisition already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/jmagly/aiwg' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '5c728143ef7c4adebf3f7e9842375b34799df393' -- 'agentic/code/plugins/media-curator/skills/youtube-acquisition' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'agentic/code/plugins/media-curator/skills/youtube-acquisition' ~/.agents/skills/'youtube-acquisition' && 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-acquisition' ~/.claude/skills/'youtube-acquisition' (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 |
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| 2026-11-13 | 5c72814 | 67 |
| 2026-11-09 | b5d0486 | 67 |
| 2026-11-07 | 6a8ee05 | 67 |