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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 onurkanbakirci/awesome-skills (GitHub) · coding · 14 stars · scanned at commit e948def
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.
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- public/skills/5c6d7e8f-9a0b-1c2d-3e4f-5a6b7c8d9e0f/SKILL.md, line 56
python scripts/download_video.py "URL" -a - public/skills/5c6d7e8f-9a0b-1c2d-3e4f-5a6b7c8d9e0f/SKILL.md, line 64
python scripts/download_video.py "URL" -o /path/to/directory - public/skills/5c6d7e8f-9a0b-1c2d-3e4f-5a6b7c8d9e0f/SKILL.md, line 71
python scripts/download_video.py "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ" -q 1080p - public/skills/5c6d7e8f-9a0b-1c2d-3e4f-5a6b7c8d9e0f/SKILL.md, line 76
python scripts/download_video.py "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ" -a - public/skills/5c6d7e8f-9a0b-1c2d-3e4f-5a6b7c8d9e0f/SKILL.md, line 81
python scripts/download_video.py "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ" -q 720p -f webm -o /custom/path - public/skills/5c6d7e8f-9a0b-1c2d-3e4f-5a6b7c8d9e0f/scripts/download_video.py, line 16
subprocess.run(["yt-dlp", "--version"], capture_output=True, check=True) - public/skills/5c6d7e8f-9a0b-1c2d-3e4f-5a6b7c8d9e0f/scripts/download_video.py, line 17
except (subprocess.CalledProcessError, FileNotFoundError): - public/skills/5c6d7e8f-9a0b-1c2d-3e4f-5a6b7c8d9e0f/scripts/download_video.py, line 19
subprocess.run([sys.executable, "-m", "pip", "install", "--break-system-packages", "yt-dlp"], check=True) - public/skills/5c6d7e8f-9a0b-1c2d-3e4f-5a6b7c8d9e0f/scripts/download_video.py, line 24
result = subprocess.run( - public/skills/5c6d7e8f-9a0b-1c2d-3e4f-5a6b7c8d9e0f/scripts/download_video.py, line 92
subprocess.run(cmd, check=True) - public/skills/5c6d7e8f-9a0b-1c2d-3e4f-5a6b7c8d9e0f/scripts/download_video.py, line 95
except 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=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/onurkanbakirci/awesome-skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'e948def3796faf0e11ef3bc6f605b39d18fa4844' -- 'public/skills/5c6d7e8f-9a0b-1c2d-3e4f-5a6b7c8d9e0f' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'public/skills/5c6d7e8f-9a0b-1c2d-3e4f-5a6b7c8d9e0f' ~/.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 |
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| 2026-11-08 | e948def | 95 |