media-download

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Check before installing. Some of what it can do is expected: a media skill usually calls an AI service over the internet.

By vargHQ/skills (GitHub) · media · 25 stars · scanned at commit 72e8109

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 playli…

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Downloads and installs other software

The author does not mention this.

Found in 14 places.

media-download/README.md, line 11npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill media-download # Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Grok, Gemini CLI, OpenCode…
media-download/SKILL.md, line 64- **"Unsupported URL" or extractor errors**: sites change often, so update the tool and retry once. Use `brew upgrade yt-dlp gallery-dl`, `yt-dlp -U` for the st
media-download/SKILL.md, line 65- **YouTube is low quality or warns about a JS runtime**: install ffmpeg (`brew install ffmpeg`). For the full YouTube format list also install `deno`.

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media-download/scripts/pinterest.sh, line 22elif command -v uvx >/dev/null; then gdl=(uvx gallery-dl)
media-download/scripts/pinterest.sh, line 23elif command -v pipx >/dev/null; then gdl=(pipx run gallery-dl)
media-download/scripts/pinterest.sh, line 25echo "gallery-dl not found: brew install gallery-dl (or: pip install gallery-dl)" >&2
media-download/scripts/video.sh, line 41command -v ffmpeg >/dev/null || echo "warning: ffmpeg not found — YouTube HD can't be merged (brew install ffmpeg)" >&2
README.md, line 19npx skills add vargHQ/skills # pick skills and agents
README.md, line 20npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill caption-styles -a codex # one skill, one agent
README.md, line 283| Any agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Grok, Gemini CLI, Copilot, OpenCode and 60+ more) | `npx skills add vargHQ/skills` or one skill: `npx skills add vargHQ
README.md, line 297- **Update skills installed with the skills CLI:** `npx skills update`.
README.md, line 298- **Pick agents and scope:** `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai -a claude-code -a codex -g -y` (`-g` global, `-y` no prompts, `--list` to see every s
README.md, line 299- **OpenCode:** `npx skills add vargHQ/skills -a opencode -g`, or copy one skill folder to `~/.config/opencode/skills/<skill>/`.
how-to/download-videos-from-x-youtube-tiktok/README.md, line 14npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill media-download --skill find-references --skill video-asset-sources

Runs commands on your computer

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Found in 2 places.

media-download/SKILL.md, line 30S=<this skill dir>/scripts/video.sh
media-download/SKILL.md, line 46P=<this skill dir>/scripts/pinterest.sh

Sends data to these websites: github.com

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

Found in 1 place.

media-download/scripts/video.sh, line 36curl -fsSL "https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/$asset" -o "$ytdlp.part"

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Install

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

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'media-download' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'media-download' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named media-download already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/vargHQ/skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '72e8109188e3366ba8d365902a84d6b237dec1d7' -- 'media-download' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'media-download' ~/.agents/skills/'media-download' && 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/'media-download' ~/.claude/skills/'media-download' (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
2026-11-07	`72e8109`	75