youtube-downloader
An agent skill by daymade, from daymade/claude-code-skills. Tags: audio, cli, download, streaming, video.
What it does
Download YouTube videos and HLS streams (m3u8) from platforms like Mux, Vimeo, etc. using yt-dlp and ffmpeg. Use this skill when users request downloading videos, extracting audio, handling protected streams with authentication headers, or troubleshooting download issues like nsig extraction failures, 403 errors, or cookie extraction problems.
Install
With the skills CLI, which installs into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents:
npx skills add daymade/claude-code-skills --skill youtube-downloaderOr copy the skill folder into Claude Code's skills directory by hand (~/.claude/skills for every project, or .claude/skills inside one):
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/daymade/claude-code-skills
cp -r claude-code-skills/youtube-downloader ~/.claude/skills/youtube-downloaderSafety box score
Grade F, high risk: 70 of 100 risk points, rated 2026-09-20. The grade rates what the skill and its scripts can reach on the machine of whoever installs it, across eight categories from shell execution to secrets access. How the score works.
Source
- Repository
- daymade/claude-code-skills (all skills from this repository)
- Path
- youtube-downloader/SKILL.md
- Branch
- main
- Updated
- 2026-09-20
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